LAND SALES ACT
FARMERS’ UNION ATTITUDE (Bv TolPSTapTv-—r ress Association) CHRISTCHURCH, Wednesday A statement in support of earlier advice that members should refuse service on land sales committees was made today by Mr W. W. Mulholland, Dominion president of the Farmers’ Union, to a meeting of the union’s North Canterbury executive. Members questioned Mr Mulholland about the implications of the Dominion executive’s request. The land committee's were so constituted, Mr Mulholland said, that they had little power to take decisions which might be based on their own common-sense reasoning. They were at the mercy of the Minister. “We wish to protect our members from being placed in that undesirable position,” he said. “If they sit on land sales committees they are not assisting returned men, but instead are being sold a pup. They are being made use of. We do not wish it to be said that any members of the Farmers’ Union had anything to do with this Act.”
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Waikato Times, Volume 132, Issue 22150, 23 September 1943, Page 4
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160LAND SALES ACT Waikato Times, Volume 132, Issue 22150, 23 September 1943, Page 4
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