"THE FARMER, GOD BLESS HIM."
MR. WESLEY SPEAGG'S : TOASt (B» T'ilonraiiti.-l'ross Asraclntlqn.l .' Auckland, August 24, In moving the adoption of tho report at the annual meeting of shareholders, cr the Now Zealand Dairy Association, the chairman of directors (Mr. Wesley Spragg) said:'—"Tho Dominion, is at the present in a distinctly prosperous condition. When that is tho ease with a country, the politicians aro apt.io consider themselves as responsible for it. Tho foundation man of any State—tho mail who stands underneath .aud gives it its essential ele•ment basis— k the man who produces its foodstuffs, the farmer. If it were for the courtesies, which it may bo as, well for us to observe, the first toast to be hor.oured at any festivity would bo: "Because ho is 'the foundation man—the farmery God bless him 1"
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 904, 25 August 1910, Page 6
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