THE FARMERS’ FRIENDS
(Pent Press Association.) Dunedin, last night. In oponing iho winter show yesterday, the .Minister of Lands said the Government had done a good deal for the agricultural industry, and would have done more but for tho obstructiveness of the Opposition. Mr John Dutbie, who was called on to speak, said that though he had been 12 or 13 years in the House, he could not remember one occasion on which the Opposition had reduced a vote for the Department of Agriculture. Tho Opposition had never been againßt votes for the development of the agricultural and dairying industries. The Minister of Lands had evidently forgotten that the Department was established before the present Ministry took office. Tho Levin State farm was a dismal failure, and if Mr Duncan would defend it he would defend anything. He claimed the Opposition were justified in criticising some of the votes proposed by the Government. He instanced the export in poultry, which had returned something like £SOOO at a cost to the colony of a great deal of money.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1482, 16 June 1905, Page 1
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