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DEMAND FOR RELIEF TREND OF LEGISLATION RESTRICTIONS ON BUSINESS (Special to Times) WHAKATANE, Friday Vigorous protests at the trend of recent legislation were volc*>J at a mass meeting in Whakatane last night, when more than 600 persons from a wide area passed resolutions urging the Government to give some relief to the farming industry. The Mayor, Mr B. 8. Barry was in the chair and there was a large number of women in the audience. The meetings were addressed by Mr R. M. Algie, director of the New Zealand Freedom Association and Mr A. J. Sinclair, secretary-manager of the Te Awamutu Co-operative Dairy Company. Three resolutions were passed, one asking the Government to take steps immediately to give some relief to the farming community, another asking it to take steps to give relief to businessmen who were being ruined by restrictive measures, and a third supporting the calling of a national conference of dairy farmers, businessmen and representatives of all other sections of the commuiity.
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Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20952, 3 November 1939, Page 6
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