PARTY POLITICS.
HON. A. D. McLEOD’S ADVICE TO FARMERS. DUNEDIN, June 5. Speaking as a farmer, not as the Minister of Lands, the Hon. A. D. McLeod, at the annual meeting of tho Otago Farmers’ Union, advised the farmers to keep clear of party politics. He believed that any participation in party politics would cause a disintegration of the union and destroy its usefulness in moulding public opinion. Many would regret that their president, Mr. W. J. Polson, was entering the political field. In recent years Mr. Polson had become highly impracticable in the many views he expounded, and was in the speaker’s opinion the mouthpiece of one or two economists with little practical knowledge of farmers’ problems. The annual report of the union statea that no doubt a large majority .of the farmers were strenuously opposed to daylight saving, which had a marked detriment on the health of the women and children in the country.— (P.A.)
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Wairarapa Age, 7 June 1928, Page 5
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