FARMERS’ MOVE.
Formation of Protection Committees. PROTEST AGAINST EVICTIONS. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, May 20. The conference of the Auckland Provincial Farmers’ Union to-day adopted a motion that branches of the union should be requested to form “ Farmers’ Protection Committees,” the objects to he to co-ordinate the interests of farmers inside and outside the union, to advise and assist farmers in difficulties under a seal of confidence, and to resist, bv all possible constitutional means, any unjust treatment of farmers who are in difficulties owing to economic conditions. The conference also decided to telegraph to the Prime Minister urging that no farmer should be put off a farm or sold up owing to the operation of price factors over which he had no control, and stating that the conference was gravely alarmed at the action of both private and Crown mortgagees in evicting mortgagors in this time of national distress.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 458, 20 May 1932, Page 7
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