SECRET SESSION WANTED
“Taking All Members Into Confidence” MOVE ADVOCATED BY SIR HEATON RHODES (United Press Association) CHRISTCHURCH, December 18. The necessity for the Government to take the farmers into its confidence if production was to be increased was urged by the Hon. Sir R. Heaton Rhodes, M.L.C., a former Minister of the Crown at a gathering of farmers at Brookside today. Sir Heaton advocated a secret session of Parliament on the lines of that held in England. “The farmers are being told today to produce more,” said Sir Heaton. “It
is difficult, however, for the farmers to undertake to do so unless they are taken into the confidence of the Government at a time when the Government is piling up restrictions. “We should follow the Old Country,’ he said, “and hold a secret session of Parliament. The Government should take all members into its confidence and should co-operate with the farmers.”
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Southland Times, Issue 24003, 19 December 1939, Page 6
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152SECRET SESSION WANTED Southland Times, Issue 24003, 19 December 1939, Page 6
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