A DISAPPOINTED POLITICIAN
(From Our Own Correspondent.) , AUCKLAND, January IT. “As far as 1 can arc at- presept 1 will take no more part in tanners' politics. lam determined to have nothing more to do with it,’’ said Captain F. Colbeck, of Morrinsville, to a .Star representative. Captain Colbeck is a prominent member of the New Zealand Formers’ Union, and was one of the prospective candidates selected by the short-lived Farmers’- -Political Party, lie was -selected to contest the Ohinemuri seat at the recent elections, hut owing to the withdrawal of -the Farmers Party was not nominated. Captain Colbeclc. said ho lias disappointed with the way the farmers weie 1 1 eating their loaders, instancing especially the lack of interest taken in the dairy pool, and the agricultural banking scheme. ‘Ono-tifth of our season's butter, ’ he said, “was landed in London in one month, and then they say there is no necessity tor a dairy pool!"
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18765, 19 January 1923, Page 7
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156A DISAPPOINTED POLITICIAN Otago Daily Times, Issue 18765, 19 January 1923, Page 7
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