ADDRESS AT WAIPUKURAU

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 80, 21 April 1937, Page 6

ADDRESS AT WAIPUKURAU

• 9 i Our Own Correspondent.)

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WAIPUKURAU, This Day. Mr. H. E. Blyde, president of the North Taranaki Province of the Farmers' Union addressed a representktive gat'hering of farmers in the Oddfellows' Hall at Waipukurau yesterday afternoon on the advantages and necOs* sities of unionism among farmers. Mr. 0. R. Edgecombe, president of the Hawke's Bay executive of the Farmers' Union, in introducing ' the speaker, said that the union in Hawke 's Bay was endeavouring to intereBt all the farmers in the district in the union, because they were all faced with grave industrial difficulties which would grow even .graver unless the farmers got together in some form or another. Mr. Blyde said that his niission was to stress the need of unity among farmers throughout New Zealand. Unionism was in the 'air to-day, and practically all Other classes in New Zealandwere being organised, either- voluntarily or compulsorily. It was self-evident that if auy ope section of the. community in New Zealand gained an advantage it must bq at the expense of some other section or seqtions of the community, to some degree. It was essential that the farming- community should combine for their own protection and it was . essential also that tbe leaders of tbe moveme'nt should be ablo to know that they had the support of the whole -of the f armefs behind them in their efforts to guard and guide the interests of New Zealand (farmers as a whole. • ; • Mr. Blyde was accorded a hearty vote of thanks for his address.