FARMERS' PROBLEMS.

Taranaki Daily News, 12 June 1920, Page 4

FARMERS' PROBLEMS.

WHEAT ADVOCATED. A PROFIT SHARING SCHEME. By Telegraph.—Press Associated Christchurch, Last Night.', The annual conference of the North Canterbury branches of the Farmers' Union passed the following resolutions: That motorists' licenses should be subject to cancellation or suspension in oases of negligence or carelessness. That it is the opinion of this meeting that while the policy of running the railways as a whole Bhould come from Wellington, the local traffic manager should be allowed more discretion in the control and management in his own district. That the Dominion Executive appoint a committee to discuss ways and means of a profit-sharing system. That direct taxation should'be levied in proportion to a taxpayer's ability to pay, irrespective of whether he derive# his income from agricultural or industrial sources; (b) that taxation of mortgage* as at present is a grossly unjust violatisn of this principle, and. should be immediately repealed; (c) that a taxpayer's income is the only fair indication of his ability to pay taxation. That this conference calls on the Government to induce, if possible, the Commonwealth Government to allow the entry of potatoes into the State upon tlu production of certificates from/a Government grader that they are free from blight and disease. Mr. W. A. Banks was elected President.

In view of the wheat shortage, it was unanimously resolved: "That this conference, in view of a probable world shortage of wheat, pledges itself to do all in its power to induce farmers to Increase the area sown in that cereal, and calls on the Government to use every means at its command to take delivery and store the grain when produced." ,