A FARMERS' PARTY.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 30 May 1910, Page 3

A FARMERS' PARTY.

« — ■• - - T : UK FOI.'.MFD IX AI'CKL.WT). [('f.lt CRKBS ASSOPIATJON. j ACC-KLAXD. .Mav 27. At ye-vM-rday's Auckland I'roviu'iH Conference cf ithe Xew Zealaii'' F-nuers' Cnioii. Ca|)tiiu Collieck. r preseiitin.'j; the ('levedou luiairch, ie-!\ed "That a fanners' partv be .'iii.-'d." They w.'iv told, he said. t' I they had ropresentaltion in Parli' oieiit. |.t was true that 21 farniei -: were members of the [fou.se <ii i;-.p:-e.seiit;itives,' bu't unfrrtuiia.tely 12 werei'ii the Goyernineiit and 12 c the Opjus.it ion sides. "It see'ivs ■i • me."' said Captain Collieck. "!'iat the farmers in 'the ITouse are i> ' : worth a rap to us. They art; I bv party, and you have onlv l-> Icok at the legislation of Itiho last li •• years to kiKrw it. 'Hie Sah< and I'. P'irt.al.ioii of Machinery Act is on;el the most ext'aord.in.iry measures -. .r pn 1 *- itlirouejh tile IToiise. We •'■ iiii to run cur cwn candidates. v main is politically what he i." '• _"ii. Idherals are liberals from '•'.: th, and Tories are Tories from ' Vfh. The only way to Ret the •;ners to voite solidly is (to .hrine: -ward '.vind'idates wh on re neither 'iior Opposition. What " want is a Farmers' Tarty." Mr J. S. Moiiittiomerie C\fanp:e.re) ■id he was eonvjioed that a Farers' Parltv was ar> actual necessity. Mr J. S. Wilson (Auckland) said '" \i'a.s saitislied that the fanners' 'terests were keenly watclicdi. in "'arlianieiit hy the Opposition. Mr I?oss said the farmers were rail .re]>rcseni'ed, huifc the trouble "■; that the farmers never knew .'.'''it they wa.nted. Captain Colbeck, in the course of ,;: s .reply, said the discussion ha f l '.■'•■ an a saddening; one. pre foolc :t iHha.t they had no politics and no '■:>ms:*. Tt was a farce to say that 'he farmers were well represented. He wanted to see the Union fighting f-M- i.ts own principles. The moltion was carried.