FURTHER PROTEST RECORDED

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 8 March 1935, Page 2

FURTHER PROTEST RECORDED

MORTGAGE CORPORATION BILL. “REMEDY ON ELECTION DAY.” The Mortgage Corporation Bill was once more the subject of discussion by the executive of the South, Taranaki branch of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union this morning, when- a liters’ Union at Hawera yesterday, when a motion by Mr J. S. Tosland (Piliama) that the branch protest against the provision for private share capital in the Bill was carried. Mr H. Finlay (Tokaora) remarked that it was useless recording a protest, as it has been the case in former Bills that they were carried, whether protest was. recorded or not. “It is absolute dictatorship,” he said, “and it is not worth while protesting about. V r e shall have our remedy when the election comes at the end of the year.” Protest had been recorded against the Transport Bill, the Reserve Bank Bill and the Emergency Powers Bill. “What happened to those?” he asked. “They were put through because Mr Coates decided that they should go through, and that is dictatorship,” he reiterated.

Referring to the matter later when the subject' of an organiser’s' appointment was under consideration, Mr W. A. Sheat (Pihama) said that the fact that no notice was taken of the farmers’ rally to discuss the Bill had to be faced. “What good did we do? We might just as well have stayed at home/’ he said. There was something wrong with the Farmers’ Union, and had they been more active the “powers-that-be” would have taken more notice of the rally, he said.