MORE SYMPATHY SOUGHT
Farmers and Mr. Barclay (P.A.T DUNEDINi This Day. "Whenever he addresses meetings of farmers he stirs up strife and ill feeling," said Mr. J. S. Elliot at a meeting of the Otago Provincial Council of the New Zealand Farmers' Union when he submitted a remit frora the Middlemarch branch expressing complete lack of confidence in the Minister of Agriculture (Mr. Barclay). The remit added that the branch considered Mr. Barclay's attitude I throughout his term of office not only unsympathetic, but antagonistic .towards the interests of the farmers, and in the. interests of national unity asked that he resign. A resolution was finally carried in the following terms:— "In the interests of national unity and in view of the widespread unrest among the farming community the Minister be urged to adopt a ' more sympathetic attitude to farmers' problems."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 101, 30 April 1943, Page 4
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141MORE SYMPATHY SOUGHT Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 101, 30 April 1943, Page 4
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