POLITICAL
In continuation of his campaign, tin* Labour candidate, Air B. Roberts, spoke at Oroua Downs Hall on Wednesday night, to a fair audience of settlers. Air Fergusson was voted to the chair. In his opening remarks, the candidate said he had been asked why the Labour Party was so anxious about the farmer, and the answer could be given straight from the shoulder, and true to Labour’s declared purpose. The dairy industry was tin* most sweated industry in New Zealand to-day, and the Labour movement challenged sweated conditions everywhere. Although the present administration was called a farmer’s Government, the working farmer was never in a worse financial position. Facts speak for themselves, he said. Thousands of farmers were only caretakers for loan conrpanies, and that was detrimental to the Dominion’s welfare. The land question had always been a very vital question in Xew Zealand, and it would certainly occupy the front bench of public opinion again. It was a great problem, and the Labour Party, as yet, was the only party to put forward any solution. Votes of thanks to the speaker and chairman concluded the meeting.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2907, 9 July 1925, Page 2
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188POLITICAL Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2907, 9 July 1925, Page 2
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