FARMERS' UNION CONFERENCE RESOLUTIONS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8480, 6 July 1907, Page 6

FARMERS' UNION CONFERENCE RESOLUTIONS.

SUBMITTED TO THE PREMIER. By Telegraph—Press Association. WELLINGTON, July 5. The resolutions passed by the National Conference of the New Zealand Farmers' Union were submitted to the Premier by a deputation to-day from the Union. In reply Sir Joseph Ward said he attached very great importance to the Suez Canal proposals submitted to the Imperial Conference, of which the Union had approved. He believed that the proposal to give a larger contribution to the Navy, and not allow the tie to be weakened, would be endorsed by the people as a whole. The native land proposals, which would be submitted this session, would, he believed, mark the beginning of very prosperous times for the country generally. With regard to the accretion of the value in valuation of land owing to improvements made by the owner, it had always been the case that the more the value of land was appreciated by such improvements the mors keenly the taxation on the property was felt. The difficulty was to put the thing in the four corners of the law, and provide sufficient latitude, for the officers of the department to discriminate. He recognised the inconvenience caused by the lack of trucks on the railway, and hoped to submit proposals which would result in a largely increased supply, but he would like to warn the users against asking the department to make storage houses of the railways after goods had reached their destination. An indiscriminate importation of people from the Old Country would prove disastrous, and he thought they should continue the scheme of allowing the High Commissioner to select immigrants.