GOVT. AND FARMERS

Greymouth Evening Star, 29 May 1936, Page 2

GOVT. AND FARMERS

MR. POLSON ANSWERED

[per press association.]

AUCKLAND, May 29

“It is not a bit of use Mr. Polson or anybody else coming along and telling you that the Government is socialistic and revolutionary,” said Mr. Lee Martin, during a surprise visit to the provincial conference of the Farmers Union, when replying to the Dominion President’s opening address to the conference, on Tuesday. Mr. Bo - son has changed direction so often, added the Minister, “that he does not know by this time what road he is travelling. He went to Taranaki after conferring with Mi “ lst T the farmers that they had nothing to fear from the Government. Now he is going round the country, singing a different song. I don’t wish any harm to the honourable gentleman, but his is the despairing wail of a disappointed man. He is living in the past and making a gambler s throw for the leadership of a new political par y. You will get a fair deal If you have representations to make, ?° n * ? e afraid to make them. They will be i e ceived in a friendly, courteous spirit. We are not wreckers, and we want yovr assistance and that of the community generally, in building this counU K was his opinion that, if the Government did nothing else besides iestoring the purchasing power of the people, its efforts would not have been in vain. The Government * if it let the farmer down, it let eve y b °Mr. e H. e (President) expressed appreciation at the attitude of Ministers, when interviewed inM el Hngton and congratulated the Government on putting Parliamental’? debat . on the air.