RURAL CREDITS

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 28, 2 August 1927, Page 10

RURAL CREDITS

COMMISSION'S TOUR

REPLY TO MR, POLSON

i, hard to the statement ma. by Mr. W, J. Poison, president of tl New Zealand Farmers' Union in "T^ Post" yesterday, as to curtailing i itinerary of the- Royal Commißsion i 7^- rai. S redit3 ' the Prime JVlinist (Eight Hon. J. G. Coates) made the f< owing remarks when -the matter w brought under his notice to-day:— I have read the report of Mr P. sons speech recently at Putaruru" sa Mr. Coates, "and I observe that he the stated that I had failed to bring do' legislation last session giving elect all the recommendations of the co mission's report, on the ground that t commission' had returned to New Z« and too late for this to be done, a . ?-* **!?. commission' had cabled to 1 intimating lt was ready to return, b that i had sent theid - 6n t0 oih »

"I Have had the opportunity of loc mg up the fileSj and x find 7 *« action was embodied in a cablegn which I dispatched to the chairman the commission at Buenos Aires on t 2nd February, 1926, suggesting for c sideration a curtailment of th! ori £ i itinerary of the commission and con mg further- operations to an. invest! tion ■ conditions im such Europe countries ■as France, Belgium, Holla^ alTr^ 1 •nd <terma^ thus S

AT THE COMMISSIQN'S JUDGMEI «th^ ay' POint.- Dut>" said to-' Coat that the commission was going to Ei land -from. Buenos Aires, tnd that countries named are all more or 1 adjacent to Great Britain. My U oT?h; v fas,, rep-lied *° >the 2LS arV TT "Ti g day ' viz -> 3r<* Feb He stated that a maioritv of 1 commission agreed that moSation the .itinerary was feasible, though c Sh 1^ ' dlSa§reed- reply of «h EQbiroiy .wai.that the question v left. entirely -to - the judgment of 1 conimxssxon, , but . repeatin g £* "gj uggestxon.as.to the desirabilTty at* ™ten. the .commission's investizatit came from myself, but that I iff t matter .entirely .to -the- -judgment of • commission. This, ]: *&£ doses' the implication made in ifrp°i! n S h Pntar^ Branch of ° Farmers' Union that I delayed the cc mission in completing its report."