The Waimate Advertiser. (Established 1998). Published every evening since 1914. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1926. ARBITRATION COURT

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIV, 22 December 1926, Page 6

The Waimate Advertiser. (Established 1998). Published every evening since 1914. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1926. ARBITRATION COURT

The publie meeting helditl recently, under the auspics Fanners’ Union, with the« drawing public and official ill the difficulties besetting th producers, seems to lure I purpose fairly well. With si ers as Mr W. J. Polson, Si Russell, Mr W. B. Mathe® William Perry available it• been strange had it been Tile Hon. A. D. McLeod, the Minister of Lauds, and the Ba Hawken, the conciliatory H* Agriculture, were presenUsi of the promoters of the gather they took no active part» monstration. An unexpettdl given to the g>i oceedings by Sr Russell moving, in effect,thl once should be denied to guilty of a breach of any «* on the Minister of Lands fl that the law already made 1 for this penalty an amen® moved urging that the » Court should be abolished ad* carried practically unani®*! giving Mr McLeod an opp® o observe that the principal Id*

and the farmers’ represent** ed to be in agreement in rr ‘ y: abolition of the Arbitratn'S The Wellington Post has itself tot rebuke farmrts _ hasty judgment. “In it said, “the Wanganui IW pronounced success. It c ’j tended and the speakers fully selected. Ris «««“* fore, that it was not more ed outside Wanganui; andd regrettable also that the' lowed itself to be staffll* j mand for the abolition of tion Court. That deautud n ported by sufficient not even debated; an( ' | < L that it would not have tit the more level-headed rt l . what the Court and 1 j system stand for. ' ie! lowed the motion to I* 355 . J they did a disservice to ■ to their fellow farmer 5 , they made it appear that als and protests were 'p.<t superficial study.’’ rightly, that the P r " r “ j meeting had 110 Lild the abolition of the ■ ■ j j The object of Sir I motion was to pena *‘ e aj I flouted the law. H |c “ intended to wreck the