AUSTRALIA

Taranaki Daily News, 1 June 1918, Page 5

AUSTRALIA

PRICE OF WHEAT. Received May 31, 10.15 p.m. Sydney, May 30 The Inter-State Commission recommends the Imperial contract prices for meat, less freezing charges, and fixed as the maximum wholesale price. FARMERS' UNION. ' FURTHER RESOLUTIONS. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Last Night.

'Die Farmers' Conference resolved to protest against the Government's stagnant attitude regarding important public works, such as roads, railways, etc., and that the Government should raise a special public works loan; that the Government be asked to establish an experimental farm on the North Auckland gum lands; that the Government be asked to raise the price of wheat to at least 7s (kl per bushel for the coming season, as under the present conditions it cannot be grown profitably for less; that the Government be urged to hasten the settlement of native lands. The conference concluded.

Tho Farmers' Conference to-day considered a remit £ha.t the conference approve of tho scheme by which farmers could own their own shins, export ami dispose of their own produce, the necessary capital to be raised by a levy of, s.iy. one penny per pound on wool, butter, and cheese, halfpenny per pound on meat, and a proportionate amount on hides and skins. An amondment was moved that the conference approve of the scheme by which farmers and mercantile. firms on the Dominion could own their own ships and eventually dispose, of their ow n produce. The amendment was carried. BEWARE OF SUDDEN COLDS. Banish them with Dr. Sheldon's New Discovery for Coughs and Colds. The ever-ready friend. Price, Is fld and 3s. ObtftiaahW ; eyn^wbere«