POLITICAL ACTION.
' NEED FOR ORGANISATION. ' (BY TELEGr, Arn.r—SPECIAIj CORRESPONDENT). Auckland, July 29. Tho..".Herald," contends that the annual general, conferoncp of the New-Zealand Farmfcrs' r Unibn how sitting.in Wollington will make a grave.error if it'dissolves without taking steps! to.,prgaiiisp tho agricultural interests,'.for political action.'. Tho farming clenient is unquestionably the most, important' in l tho industrial lifo of;the Dominion, yet it is admittedly quite powerless to protect itself from imposition or to obtain leg.islation 'whiph. would gjvo to special laws tho purpose almosCuiianimously desired by agriculturists. This is not because tho agriculturalinterests are only represented in Parliament by a relatively small opposition, for members 'electorates sit on both sides of thp House, but because a politically strong, •though numerically small, section, highly -prganised-and _ capably led, wages open warupon the position of the tillers, of tho soil.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 263, 30 July 1908, Page 4
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