FARMERS' UNION CONFERENCE.
RESOLUTIONS PASSED,
BY TELBGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION. WELLINGTON, July 29. The Farmers' Union Conference,' to-day, passed the following resolutions: — That in view of the failure of the Conciliation and Arbitration Acts, it would be in the interests of everybody concerned if these Acts were repealed or amended; That the Union is opposed to any alteration of the 1 tariff in the direction of increasing the import duty on timber, and would ask the Minister of Railways to abolish the differential tariff on imported timber, and that the Union asks the Government to do away with that, as it is entirely a tax on the farming community; That this Conference strongly ; protests against any export duty on farm produce of any description; That the Railway Department be urged to devise a satisfactory method of dealing with danger of fires caused by sparks from locomotives ; That the Government be asked to carry farmers in parties of six to experimental farms at excursion rates, and that accommodation should be provided at reasonable rates as is done in Denmark.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9154, 30 July 1908, Page 5
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177FARMERS' UNION CONFERENCE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9154, 30 July 1908, Page 5
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