N.Z. FARMERS UNION.
SOUTH CANTER-BURY EXEOU- I TIVB. " [By Telegraph — Fress Association.) TIMARU, Last Night. The ExcciitiV6 of the South Canterbury branch of the farmers Union decided to convene a conference of I braneli chairman and local members of J Parliament, to discuss several matters on which the Union considers legislation or administrative action is required. These include an experimental farm for the district; the question of j flifferential railway produce from Oamaru favouring Port Clialmers as against. Timaru, the importation of domestic servants; and the shortage of trucks. Regarding the latter, the president remarked that the argument that it wduld not pay to keep a lot of trucks to meet the requirements of a busy season might be used 'by the threshing millowners, when it would be seen to be ridiculous. The gram season, being a long one if rom north to south, the trucks would not be long idle. The executive was unanimously of the opinion that the Department's estimate of the average grain yield was helow the mark for South Canter- > bury. .It should bo at least 35 bushels i for wheat and 50 -bushels for oats.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10602, 8 April 1912, Page 3
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190N.Z. FARMERS UNION. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10602, 8 April 1912, Page 3
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