STRONG RESENTMENT
SOUTHERN MAIN TRUNK
MARLBOROUGH ANNOYED
• (By Telegraph—l'ress "Association.) ■".•.' BLENHEIM, This Day. Strong indignation was expressed by the Marlborough provincialexecutive of the farmers' Union regarding the critieisfii levelled at the completion of the South Island Main Trunk railway by Mr. W, J. Poison, Dominion president of the Farmers' Union, in an'address delivered by him at Invercargili in tlio course of his South Island lecturing tour. In addition to tho fact that Mr. Poison will be asked to explain his statements and.attitude when he visits Blenheim later this month, the meeting unanimous!}' carried Ihe following resolution:—'' As this executive understood that Mr. Poison's addresses during his South Island tour would' be in his capacity of president of, the New; Zealand Farmers' Union and would be confined to matters of interest to the farming community, this executive objects generally to. the : political aspect given, to his campaigii, as would appear from the Press reports, and particularly objects to his misleading statements regarding the .South Island Main Trunk railway." ■ . . .''
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 102, 2 May 1930, Page 10
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167STRONG RESENTMENT Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 102, 2 May 1930, Page 10
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