DIRECT ACTION DISCUSSED BY FARMERS
(P.A.) Whangarei. Nov. 15. Direct action as a means of combating increasing injustices claimed to be upon the farming community, particularly the manner in which the country quota abolition was introduced .was indicated at a meeting of Farmers’ Union members in the Kaitaia district yesterday. A recommendation to this effect is to be forwarded to the Auckland provincial executive. Mr. C. B. Mitchie, branch president and also president of the Bay of Islands sub-provincial executive, claimed that thu* receni legislat : on was an ominous sign that the Government was heading toward socialisation of the farmers’ land, it was difficult, however, to condemn the nrincinl*’ of “one man, one vote.” renresented bv the quota abolition, and the question was whether direct action was justified on this basis alone, Mr. M'chie added.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 89, Issue 272, 17 November 1945, Page 3
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