NATIONAL PARTY’S “LEFT WING"
FARMERS’ UNION NAMED BY MR CULLEN
(From Our Parliamentary Reporter). WELLINGTON, August 10. The Farmers’ Union was the “left wing” of the National Party, declared Mr E. L. Cullen (Lab., Hawkes Bay) amid cries of dissent from the Opposition benches when speaking in the financial debate in the House this afternoon. , “I suppose that is the reason why many members on the Opposition benches are continually bringing farmers’ proposals forward in the House, soft-soaping the farmers,” he added. _ “The Government has a ‘left wing. Well, the National Party has a left wing’, too, and is using it well,” said Mr Cullen. Very little had been heard from the Opposition lately about the guaranteed price. He supposed it was because the Farmers’ Union had been giving instructions not to fight so bitterly against it. “Even the member for Stratford (Mr W. J. Polson) has made very little mention of the guaranteed price and he was great for the compensated price at one time and the repayable advance too. If the guaranteed price has not assisted farmers in their returns for butterfat it has assisted them materially in their returns for surplus stock,” he said.
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Southland Times, Issue 23893, 11 August 1939, Page 8
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