REPLY TO HON McLEOD
MR. POLSON & COUNTRY PARTY New Plymouth Sept. 4. A reply to an attack by the Hon. A. D. McLeod, on the politics of Mr. TV. J. Polson and on the Country party, was made by Mr. Polson in the course of an addrees to the electors at Okau yesterday. Mr. Pol. son referred with amusement to the Minister's “misrepresentation of fact’’ in a speech at Waitoa. It was, he said. Mr. McLeod’s usual method of reply, and it was so well known that he (Mr. Polson) had kept the Farmers’ Union out of politics and that he was not a member of the Country party that it was not necessary to answer Mr. McLeod on the point. The Minister’s anger was due to the fact that the speaker was opposed to Reform, and apparently only Farmers’ Union presidents who, like Mr. J. Bitchener, M.P., supported Reform, should be allowed to voice political opinions. The allegation that he (Mr. Polson) had used the organisation of the Farmers’ Union, or allowed it to be used, for political purposes, was grotesquely untrue. The fact was that Mr McLeod had been thwarted in-his endeavours to exploit the Farmers’ Union for political purposes—hence his rage.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVIII, Issue 225, 5 September 1928, Page 6
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