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Otago Witness, Issue 3808, 8 March 1927, Page 49

“It was interesting to me,” remarked , Air W. J. Polson to members of the Wanganui Rotary Club, while telling of his trip abroad, “to. see the extraordinary, thrift, energy, and capacity for hard work of the German farmer. When I was in Germany almost all the country was under the plough and the most extraordinary fertility was evident. Even the poorest of German farmers maintains his respectability and is always decently dressed. I was struck by their scientific methods of crop rotation and by their advanced use of labour-saving machinery, such as tractors, cropping machines, and potato diggers.” “The socialisation of the means of production, distribution, and exchange” is the objective of the New Zealand Labour Party as laid down in the present platform. The Wellington Trades and Labour' . Council and the Wellington central branch of the party propose to move at the forthcoming* annual conference of the party ,at Napier the addition of the following, words: “To be controlled bv a deniocratio State ih the interest of the entire' community.