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Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6671, 26 July 1928, Page 3

Prido in the growth that the Farm- j brs’ Union has made was expressed by Mr. W. J. Poison in his presidential address at the Dominion conference in Wellington yesterday. "The Farmers ’ Union," he stated, has been of slow, but steady growth,, and to-day both in membership and prestige, stands higher than ever before. I for one cannot undertake the responsibility of recommending a plan which Would possibly jeopardise its progress and I think I am voicing the opinion of the whole committee in saying this. May I also add that as one who has had a hand in building up this great organisation, pride in its progress and growth influences mo against any experiments with its constitution. Would it be out of place for mo to .say here that, when I accepted eight years ago the office I now hold, the active membership was only one-tenth of what it is to-day and the revenue available for the organisation work of headquarters only about one-twelfth of what it is at the present mopient. ADVERTISING in the "Manawatu Times", gets’action the same day.