NOTES AND COMMENTS

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 4575, 28 April 1922, Page 2

NOTES AND COMMENTS

And It is So. In an address at the Farmers’ School of Instruction at Weraroa this week Mr E. Clifton, a former officer of the Stock Division of tho Agricultural Department, said that if the farmers would organise as they should they could exert a powerful influence in this country on every question affecting them, including finance and taxation. They had no organisation. For 18 months' he was secretary of a sub-provincial executive of a farmers’ union, and ho found that silly little jealousies and objection to paying the miserable subscription were the things that kept tho farmers disunited. Out of 28,000 farmers in one district, only 4000 belonged to the union, and thov were not all financial. Was it not .time they set about altering that state of things? Tho Farmers’ Union, however,, has just proved Mr Clifton, that it has push as well as pull: in getting three-seats on the Taxation Committed,;