FARMERS' UNION CONFERENCE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8444, 17 May 1907, Page 7

FARMERS' UNION CONFERENCE.

SUBJECTS FOR DISCUSSION AT LEVIN. Delegates representing the Wellington provincial branches of the New Zealand Farmers' Union are to hold their annual conference at Levin on the 28th inst. .The usual lengthy list of remits from branches will be placed before the conference for consideration. The following five remits refer to the' already much-discussed Land Bill: From Marton.—"That, in the opinion of this meeting, it should be left to the executive to make such suggestions for alteration in the Land Bill as will meet with the general approval of the various branches." From Wanganui.— "That no Land Bill will meet the approval of this Union that does not contain the right to procure the freehold." From Palmerston ~North. "That the conference urge on the executive to maintain steady pressure against proposed Land Bill, especially as to fixing hard and fast limits on farming industry, whilst no so such limits are imposed on other industries, and putting obstacles in the way of enterprising farmers obtaining capital to assist their work." From Kimbolton—"That this conference, while considering the Got vernment land proposals crude and unworkable, is hot opposed to the principle of limitation of areas." From Makuri.—"That this conference object to the proposed Land Bill, seeing no provision is made for the freehold and that clause 3 of our platform be reaffirmed." There is the usual remit urging the Railway Department to provide more rolling-stock, urging the Government to come to a decision regarding the dairy school and experimental station, the abolition of the sheep-tax, extension of country telephones, abolition of the jury system in civil cases, amendments of the Noxious Weeds, Rating, Drainage and Workerß' Compensation Acts, and the fencing of Government reserves. The Palmerston North delegates are to move that the Government be urged to establish a veterinary college in the North Island. Feilding will move that the Government be asked to give Crown tenants the right to elect one member of the Land Board in each district. Whakatakiwill move: "That fighting the rating on unimproved value be made ons of the main planks of the Union platform." Woodville will move: "That the rabbit rate for Hawke's Bay be abolished, and that the inspection of rabbits be carried out by the Government, the same as is done in every other province in New Zealand." The education question is referred to in the following remits:—From Makuri: "That the regulations respecting free places in the secondary schools are unsatisfactory, as no special consideration is given . to, country children." From Levin: "That the conference urge on the Government the desirability of having a universal set of books in use through the various primary schools of the colony, and thus save the unnecessary cost to those parents who may be frequently shifting from one education district to another.'^