SPIRITED DEFENCE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 269, 13 November 1935, Page 11

SPIRITED DEFENCE.

GOVERNMENT'S MEASURES. "FARMERS WOULD HAVE ARMED". (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) HAMILTON, this day. The emergency measures taken by the Government when the national income slumped, owing to the fall in prices overseas, were defended with spirit by tho National Government candidate for Hamilton, Sir Alexander Young, who addressed a crowded meeting in the Alexandra Hall last night. "Many members of the legal profession opposed the moratorium," said Sir Alexander. "These people suggested that the farmers should be permitted to walk off their farms if they could not meet their obligations. Let me tell you the farmers would not have walked off; they would have armed themselves and resisted any sffort to put them off. The Farmers' Union discussed the formation of battalions for the purpose of helping farmers to resist evictions. "The Government did not take the course the legal profession advised. It took preventive measures and applied the moratorium. No fewer than 14,000 farmers had applied for relief under the moratorium, which had been of incalculable value to tho producers." A vote of thanks and confidence received a mixed reception, but was declared carried.