AGRICULTURE WANTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 May 1922, Page 7

AGRICULTURE WANTS.

REMITS TO THE COUNCIL. TARANAKI VIEWS. Representatives of the Taranaki A. & ■ Associations held a meeting in Stratford yesterday morning, for the purpose of considering remits for the Council of Agriculture. There were present Messrs. ■Sangster, Pettigrew and Pollock (Stratlord). Grant, Hill and Sampson (Taranaki), Washer and Blake (Egmont). Mr. W. R. Grant was in the chair. The first remit was one from Taranaki asking that the Railway Department should be asked to improve facilities for handling show cattle. The chairman said a similar remit had been submitted for years, and the railway facilities seemed to be still as bad aa they were 40 years ago. Mr. Hill (Taranaki) said he had taken stock from the Hawera Show, and they had been shunted in almost every station till they got to Lepperton. The chairman thought they should not confine the recommendation to show cattle. It should cover all classes of cattle.

It was stated that recently there had been improvement so far as cleanliness of trucks was concerned, but nothing had been done as regards speeding up journeys.

The chairman said an exhibitor, if he did not care how unpopular he became, could insist that his stock should not he shunted at all.

The remit was amended by adding a clause that the chief improvement desired was the speeding up of the carriage of stock, and as amended was passed. Egmont submitted a remit protesting against the imposition of the amusement tax on members’ tickets.

The chairman mentioned that at the Jersey Club demonstration at Inglewood amusement tax was demanded if any charge was made for admission, and that wa® a purely educational affair, He suggested that the Government be urged to take the amusements tax entirely off A. & P. -shows.

The remit was amended by making a demand for the entire withdrawal of the amusements from A. & P. shows and for a refund to those societies who had paid the tax. Stratford submitted a remit asking that the Government charge for semiofficial testing should be ten guineas for one cow and one guinea for each additional COW.