TELEGRAPHIC.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10287, 15 July 1911, Page 5

TELEGRAPHIC.

^ —» SUCCESSFUL YEAR. FARMERS' CO-OPEtwiTIYE ASSOCIATION. By Telegraph — Press Association. NAPIER, Lost Night. The annual meeting of siiareholdersi of the Farmers'' Co-operative Association, adopted the report recommending a dividend of 8 per cent., a bonus'of 25 per cenit. on commissions, a bonus of 2 per cent, on goods purchased, bonus of 5 per cent..on salaries earned, and £IOOO carried forward. In .moving ihe adoption of the report, Mr R. D. D. McLean, chairman of directors, saad the prospects for the wool market were very brigtat. A Bradford, man informed him that the market would be good for the next ton years. He also referred io til© prospects of introducing New Zealand frozen meat into^ Continental markets. The meeting . resolved to increase the sliarei,,capital to £200,000 by the creation of an-additional 20,000 share-. «f £5 "neb..

LABOURS REQUIREMENTS. REMOVAL OF BUTTER IMPORT DUTY. . By Telegraph — Press Association. . V " DUNEDlN,.LastNighifev v At a. meeting of the Dunedin, Labourer' Union, it was resolved that I'epresentatdpns be made to the Government to remove the concession; granted to exporters of butitei:, and to the impoxi duty,, a» tfafe Union regard it as extortionate that Is 4d per lb should be paid for New Zealand butter when the same butter is sold in England at Is per lb. It was also decided that the members of the Union, should be urged to .only support candidates for Parliament who would favour 9s a day in, the Government service.