FARMERS' UNION
A REPRESENTATIVE BODY
PROOF IN MEMBERSHIP
(By lelennipb-l'iess AsMiciation.) MASTEETON, This Day.
The suggestion that the New Zealand Farmers' Union was an organisation of big farmers was dealt with by Mr. A. P. O'Shea, Dominion Secretary, at a meeting of the Wairarapa provincial executive. "There are about 2500 flocks of over 2500 sheep in New Zealand," Mr. O'Shea said, "and the number of holdings of 1000 acres and over is approximately 6000. The membership of the Farmers' Union today is well over 20.000, so it may be seen that the union must be thoroughly representative of the average New Zealand farmer. There are not two thousand squatters in New Zealand, let alone 20,000."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 20, 25 January 1938, Page 10
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115FARMERS' UNION Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 20, 25 January 1938, Page 10
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