ATTITUDE OF FARMERS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 129, 3 June 1931, Page 8

ATTITUDE OF FARMERS.

"BIASED AND INTOLERANT."

VIEWS OF SIR JAMES PARR

ADVERSE WAIKATO CRITICISM.

(By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) HAMILTON, Tuesday. On the occasion of his address to .IJe Hamilton Luncheon Club last month t» views expressed by Sir James Fur Empire free trade met wift criticism from members ot tut ' ■ executive ot heg Union. Sir Jan.ee then wrote nU»a his willingness to address a mu. ■ > farmers in Hamilton. l'he exee»« agreed to give him an oppjJJjV speaking to farmers m no date has been arranged. »« { []K has now written to the sccreW executive, Mr. W. H. Allen, as tollo« "On May 14 I wrote alcttci *% ing that I should be invned your executive to deal up « d;„ standings. My letter w*j J «J friendly and civil terms, but. jo mc tive at once adopted an „ neither civil nor friendly. a newspaper report you iiatt » „ and called in the Press, so .might publicly attack mo in an and insulting fashion-surelj a pe treatment of a guest! blc "Why does your executive stem to dfeeiws a plain eco»o«}ic and w„; issue without heat and .%„,! Anion- other -i/ annlin? said that Sir Janie- IUIT «<*. f . to get a Mnall meeting of a lew who could not reply , and rnotoccjj your speakers were agreed that. u . { j suit vour executive much bettei addressed a full conference. ,„ now to say that I am most-anx address a full conference, or, w* tllfr a meeiing of all the ianne Slj ~, in the Farmers' Union or not) vrno care to hear my views. , s j nC e "Notwithstanding the tact J" beell theee attacks on me y 0U T lia 'ff saf *« good enough to hear me, I must w J the attitude of the _executive j obviously biased and mtoleunt despair of getting at their haud; t hearing. But it you will arraj I shall meet the largest poss of farmers, with an impartial L I shall bedelielited to come to Ham to address them. , J a te '" -P.S.-I regret being a litticsi answering you. but I was Hauraki election, where w*- . tefl appear t... have emphaticallj rej your executive's views.