FARMERS’ POLITICS.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XLIX, Issue 148, 5 September 1928, Page 2

FARMERS’ POLITICS.

MR M'LEOD AND MR POLSON. AN ANGRY MINISTER. (Per Press Association). NEW PLYMOUTH, Last night, A reply to an attack by the Hon, A. D. McLeod, on Hie polities of Mr \V. J. l’olson and on the Country party, was made by Mr Poison the eon me of an address to the el«. tors at Okau yesterday. Mr Poison referred with amusement to the Minister’s “misrr|i«. Hesitation of f'aet ” in a speech a ( Waitoa. It was, be said, Mr Me. Lead's usual method of reply, ami it was so well known that he (Mr Polson) had kept the Farmers’ I nion out of polities and that he »> not a member of the Country party that it was not necessary to answer Mr McLeod i :i the point. The Minister’s anger was due to the fact, that the speaker was opposed to Reform, and apparently only Far. mers’ Union presidents who, like Mr .1. Bitehener, M.P., supported lie. form, should he allowed to voire puli, tiea! opinions. The allegation that he (Mr Poison) had used the organisation of the Farmers’ Union, or

allorved it to he used, for political purposes, was grotesquely untrue. The faet was that Mr MeLeod had been thwarted in his endeavor- to

exploit the Farmers’ Union for puli tieal purposes —henee his rage.