FARMERS’ UNION.
BBANOH FOEMED AT WHATATUTU.
Our Whatatutu correspondent telephoned last evening : A very successful meeting of the Poverty Bay Provincial Exeoutive of the New Zealand Farmers' Union was held at Whatatutu this evening, Mr Geoffrey MoLean presiding. Mr W- K. Chambers (president) and Mr A. B. Watson (vice-president) gave able addresses, '-which wero enthusiastically received. ’
• Mr W. Lissant Clayton (provincial secretary) also spoke on the freehold tenure question and Farmers’ Union matters generally. After the addresses had been delivered a branch of the Farmers’ Union was formed, with its headquarters at Whatatutu. Mr A. Heggarty was elected president, Mr W. Hay vice-president, and Mr B. S. Barton secretary. A committee was appointed to canvass the district for new members.
There are good prospects of a powerful branch being|formed amongst the settlers of Whatatutu and Waipaoa. The Provincial, Exeoutive will hold a meetiDg at Te Karaka to-morrow (Friday) evening, at whioh Mr W. Morgan will speak on rural technical education.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1553, 8 September 1905, Page 3
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