LYNCH FAMILY BELLRINGERS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19033, 1 December 1923, Page 2

LYNCH FAMILY BELLRINGERS.

nie Lynch Family Bellringers have completed their tour of Central Otago, where large! audiences were unstinted in their praise of this popular company, which will appear at Palmerston Town Hall to-night and at Oamaru Opera House on Monday night. DAIRY PRODUCE CONTROL. TO TAB EDITOR. Sib, —The letter of your correspondent J. Johnston, in your issue of even date, does more credit to his imagination and credulity than to his zeal for veracity. As regards the supply of rolls of electors, these were in the hands of the alleged “Dairy Council,” and a circular (directed to every voter soliciting support, for the "ticket”) in the post office, whilst Mr Cobbe, an ardent supporter of control and chairman of the Dairymen’s Union, was seeking legal assistance to compel the Minister to issue the union roll. What your correspondent terms a “simple explanation” is simply a journalistic rehash of the Minister’s apologia for indefensible actions. It is the height of effrontery to describe the meeting called by Mr Macaulay os “a small, carefully arranged meeting.” It was called by advertisement in the Otago Daily Times, which extended an open invitation to all interested. And it is extremely unfortunate for Mr J. Johnston’s farcical statement that “wo had a carefully planned ticket to wreck the Act,” that Mr Thacker—whoso name appears on the Dairy Council ticket—is one of the very men we ask the voters to support. Messrs Macaulay, Lee, Birtles, and indeed the whole of the men supporting the “ticket.” are men whose word goes with the dairymen of Otago. They are fighting this issue in the interest of the working dairy farmer, and doing it at their own personal expense, and everyone of them is a dairyman. Finally, Mr J, _ Johnston that the Farmers’ Union “does represent the farmer.” Well, facts sneak louder than words. There are at least 4000 suppliers of cream to butter factories between Mataura River and the Waitaki. The late Mr J. C. Browne, organiser for the Farmers’ Union, stated in a public meeting et Middlemnrcb that there were not 400 members of t.h" union when he began bis tour. He made a strong canvass, and to-day tbe union is only galvanised into a spasmodic aclivitv bv the movement of the wires hy the Wellington bosses. Poor old Otago!—l am, etc.. W. D. Mason. Middleman-'!. November 29.