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MR HAMILTON’S CRITICISM. “RAD-TEMPERED OUTBURST.” (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, July 31. * “Mr Hamilton’s bad-tempered little outburst., while it docs not do credit to his imagination, nmol nave been a severe strain upon it and betrays no evidence of a sense of humour,” said the Hon. P. Fraser, replying to statements by the Hon. Adam Hamilton (leader of the Opposition). “If Mr Hamilton imagines that the Government or the country is likely to <mist,ake the utterances of hardened veteran anti-Labour and pro-National-ist speakers at the Farmers’ Union conference for the voice of the dairy farmers of the the sooner he recovers from that delusion the better,” said Mi- Fraser. “The evidence that the Government’s guaranteed price policy is supported by the great majority of the farmers concerned is overwhelmingly conclusive. That is natural, • because guaranteed prices plus the readjustment of fai-m finance have brought the farmers security and a sense of future safety,” He had nothing to say of the remainder of Mr Hamilton’s statement. “Its own absurdity is its own complete answer,” he said.