FARMERS ANNOYED

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20127, 22 December 1939, Page 9

FARMERS ANNOYED

PRESIDENT IGNORED NO REPLY YET MADE MR. SAVAGE CRITICISED (Per Press Association.) DUNEDIN, this day. Statements made by the Dominion president of the Farmers’ Union, Mr. W. V/. Mulholland, regarding the recent broadcast by the controller of commercial broadcasting, in which it was alleged that Mr. C. G. Scrimgeour referred to the farmers as “Public Enemy No. 3,” were wholeheartedly supported by the Otago provincial council of the union at its meeting yesterday. Discussion on the subject was brief, but members were unanimous in their support of the following resolution:— “That the council whole-heartedly supports the Dominion president’s statements and expresses disappointment that the Prime Minister, tlje Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage, has not seen fit to reply to them.”

The president of the Otago branch, Mr. R. S. Thompson, w'ho moved the motion,-said he thought they would be unanimous in their decision to support Mr. Mulholland’s statement Mr. D. H. Cockburn said that the Prime Minister had, as far as he knew, failed to reply to the president. That was more or less an insult to the farmers and they should not hesitate to draw Mr. Savage’s attention to it. “We do not like to see our president ignored,” Mr. Cockburn said, “and we should see that we obtain a reply.” • Mr. W. Lee: You may make old Scnmgeour feel very important. The motion was carried unanimously.