POLITICIANS DIFFER

Hokitika Guardian, 27 May 1931, Page 6

POLITICIANS DIFFER

(By Teleyraph — Per Press Association)

STRATFORD, May 26

A statement by Mr Coates in the. Hauraki by-election campaign that Mr Poison, M.P., president of the Farmers’ Union, was not keen on having animal foods admitted duty free to New Zealand is challenged by Mr Poison, who said that lie bad always urged the tree admission of all stock food. “Hansard discloses,” said Mr Poison, “that when Mr Coates moved the amendment referred to, I said I hoped it was a genuine attempt to relieve the stock' breeder and farmer. If the leader of tlio Opposition would include in his amendment freeing fowl wheat and wheat for tbe> stock ’breeder, J would vote for it, hut if it dealt merely with the trifling question of linseed meal, it was not worth while, for it. was not of great importance to tanners. I voted for the amendment as a matter of principle. During the same session I also supported a recommendation of the Agricultural Stock Committee, of which I am a member, urging that stock foods he admitted free, and I drew the fire of a . number of southern members, several of whom were Reform supporters, who talked the motion out. Mr Coates did not raise a. voice in support of the report, or in restraint ol the■' objectors. H was Air Coates who was not keen,’