CRITICISM OF MR. POLSON
POLITICAL FLAVOUR OF CAMPAIGN
MARLBOROUGH FARMERS’ PROTEST
By Telegraph. —Frog Association. Blenheim, May 2.
Strong indignation was expressed' by the Marlborough provincial, executive ot the Farmers’ Union regarding the cii icism levelled at the completion of the South Island Maia Trunk railway byMr. W. J. Polson, Dominion president of the Farmers’ Union, in an address delivered by him at Invercargill. Mr. Polson will be asked to explain his statements and attitude when he visits Blenheim later this month. . The meeting unanimously carried the following motion: —“As this executive understood Mr. Polson’s addresses durin" his South Island tour would bo in his capacity as president of the New Zealand. Farmers’ Union, and would be confined to matters of interest to the farming community, this executive objects generally to tho, political aspect given to his campaign, as would appear from the Press reports, and particularly objects to his misleading statements regarding the South Island Main Trunk railway ~. <
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Taranaki Daily News, 3 May 1930, Page 5
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