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DOMINION FARMERS
NON-CO-OPERATION PLAN
P.A. TIMARU, this day. "I do not support it," said the president of the South Canterbury Farmers' Union, Mr. J- Dempsey, when invited to comment on the Wellington report that a plan to boycott the State Bank and other State trading institutions was being put into effect by "action committees" of the Farmers' Union to register the union's disapproval ol recent legislation, in particular the Electoral Amendment Act, which involved the abolition of the country quota. "I am sorry that this has gone into print," added Mr. Dempsey. "I do not hold with it. If everything else had been tried without success we may have had to resort to such action, but everything else has not been tried. There could be much more co-operation and willingness to learn to understand. We see our own side and we should see the other fellow's, too. "I do not like the methods being adopted in this policy of non-co-operation with the Government, concluded Mr. Dempsey. "Certainly the abolition of the country quota was unfair and undemocratic; if it had been made the issue at an election and had been supported by the majority of the people I would not have minded."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXVI, Issue 29, 10 December 1945, Page 6
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