GENERAL ELECTION.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 4590, 16 May 1922, Page 3

GENERAL ELECTION.

ADDRESS BY LEADER OF COUNTRY PARTY

(Per Press Association.^ Thames, May 16. ;Mr A. A. Ross, lender of the Country Party and candidate for the Thames, ' addressed a meeting at Ngatea on Saturday. Pie vaid the producing population had not iiad fair representation in Parliament, but they wanted no town and country antagonism. Tho intention of the row party was to get to-day men in tho House to look after the farmers' interests properly. The farmers were up again excessive public expenditure and the present Labour system. The arbitration system had failed. He advocated that a public inquiry should precede a round-table conference, and the public should be represented. He attacked tho embargoes placed on exports by tho Government in past years those cm hides, potatoes, and butter were paid for by the fanners. A Country Party in the House of Representatives would hare insisted on dn cussing these proposals. The soldier settlement shceme had been bungled. Tho Country Party had advocated settlement scheme had been bungled, try in blocks sufficient for 20 men. This would have entailed less expenditure than settlement on high-priced land. ' All successful candidates of the new party would not support any particular party on a question affecting the farmers. They would support the farmers' interest, but in other poliical matters would support any party they thought fit.