"LACK OF FRANKNESS"
CRITICISM OF MINISTRY
MEETING AT PATUTAHI
A statement that failures on the part of the Government had been accompanied by a lack of frankness and a concealment of essential facts which bewildered the country and made for uncertainty was made at a meeting at Patutahi by Mr. L. T. Burnard last night when he gave an address in the interests of the National Party.
In the dairy industry, for example, Mr. Burnard said, the Minister, though professing to base the guaranteed prices on a purely arithmetical calculation, consistently declined to supply the figures and so let them be checked by those most interested. The dissatisfaction of the dairy farmer was voiced in no uncertain terms by the Hon. W. Nash's audience on Monday night at Hamilton. There also, Mr. Nash had the temerity to assert that the Farmers' Union had approved of certain of his figures.
Yesterday, the Farmers' Union officially repudiated his assertion, Mr. Burnard added ,and not only that, they showed that the same assertion had been made some months before by Mr. Nash, and had then been denied, leaving no excuse for its re-. petition.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19555, 10 February 1938, Page 4
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