FARMERS AND POLITICS

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6918, 25 May 1929, Page 2 (Supplement)

FARMERS AND POLITICS

DIRECT ACTION NEEDED SUCCESS AT LAST ELECTION At the Farmers union congress in Auckland recently, tho president, Mr A. A. Ross, referred to farmers’ participation in politics as follows: “Judging bv the decisions which have been arrived at from time to time it is evident that a great majority of the members of the Farmers’ union in this province at all events arc of opinion that more direct action in politics would assist materially in gaining our objects. Following on the emphatic eir pression of opinion on this point given at the last conference, the executive had given the Country party movement the fullest possiblo moral support of the union, and they might congratulate themselves on the fact that the first decisive result had been attained, and that the Country party had made its first appearance inside of Parliament.” (Applaus.) Continuing, Mr Boss said he did not anticipate that anything would transpire at that conference to alter the previous decision. Ho felt sure that the incoming executive would continue to carry cut the same policy, and that tho moral force of the union in this matter would become greater and more effective ns time went on, and as the result of next election a solid force would bo found ranged under Captain Rushworth, the leader of the Country party. (Applause.).