REPLY BY FARMERS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26479, 5 June 1947, Page 8

REPLY BY FARMERS

TUAPEKA COUNTY COUNCIL CRITICISM CONFIDENCE IN MR DAVEY An official reply to the criticism which the Tuapeka County Council has directed against Mr A. J. Davey, the farmers’ representative on the Soil Conservation ■ and Rivers Control Council, was issued by the executive of the Otago branch of Federated Farmers of New Zealand yesterday. The statement is as follows:

“The Tuapeka County Council is a body of men elected by the ratepayers of that county for the purpose of maintaining roads, bridges and the amenities of the district generally. It also has the right to elect a member to the Soil Conservation and Rivers Control Council, through the Counties’ Association, to see that the roads and bridges are protected in any scheme of conservation that may be undertaken. The farmers, as a whole, also have the right to elect a representative to the council, and it ill becomes one body to criticise the action of another from a purely parochial angle, or to comment on the qualifications of that man to represent the members of the Federated Farmers’ organisation. Mr Davey is recognised as an authority on the subject and we have every confidence in our representative, whose appointment has been confirmed by the Dominion council.”