SOLDIER SETTLERS

Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 18898, 29 May 1936, Page 2

SOLDIER SETTLERS

UNION URGES PROTECTION —— unwom-mru'rzo SHIIP. (Special Reporter.) 1 AUCKLAND, Thursday. 1 The heavy loss sustained by farm-i I" who unknowingly purchased rag-i wort intested sheep under the impres— i slon that they were clean was stressed by members at the Auckland Provincial Ilonference or the l-‘armers‘ Union today. Drafted with the object or protect—lng the soldier settler. a remit moved by Mr C. L. Browne, otorohunga, asked that sheep purchased for soldier settlers by fields inspectors o! the Lands Depurmmnt should be ragworttree as far as it was reasonably DOSBible to dcteru‘ilne, was received by the ronfercnre with diversity of opinion. There would In! no complaint. said Mr Browne, i! the inspectors brought shePp that were luio\\n to lie ragwort in—fested. but were only inlemlt‘d f 0? “cleaning—up" purposes. in this particular case the settlers would expect a certain amount or loss and would accordingly be prepared for 11. The remit should be widened in scope so as to protect farmers in clean country from buying ragwert—infested sheep. said Mr 1". (J. Roberts. Mr A. E. Martin considered the question could be we“ left to the individual Judgment of the farmer. An amendment brought forward by Mr C. C. Munro that the matter be left to tho Returned Soldiers‘ Association we: lost and the original remit was curled.