FARMERS AND LABOUR
NEW ORGANISATION
MOVEMENT IN TARANAKI
(By Telegraph.)
(Special to the "Evening Post.")
NEW PLYMOUTH, This Day.
A movement to establish an association of farmers in support of the Government is gaining momentum in Taranaki, as the result of dissatisfaction with the attitude of the Farmers' Union. Prominent farmers and Labour Party officials unanimously decided at a meeting at Stratford that it would be in the best interests of the farming community to give the Government every possible assistance, and a large provincial committee was formed. It is intended to invite the Minister of Agriculture, the Hon. W. L. Martin, to a public meeting.
Though it is stated that the new association will not be in opposition to the Farmers' Union, and that it will be possible for a farmer to belong to both associations) a clash is foreseen. In some quarters it is stated that Labour views have no chance on the south Taranaki executive of the Farmers' Union, and that many are dissatisfied with the presehj position, so that the new body will certainly have a political basis.
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Evening Post, Issue 29, 3 August 1936, Page 10
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