FARMERS’ UNION.
DEMOCRATIC MEMBERSHIP. Per Press Association. MASTERTON, Jan. 24. The suggestion that the Farmers’ Union was an organisation of big farmers was dealt with by Mr A. P. O’Shea, Dominion secretary, at a meeting of the. Wairarapa provincial executive. “There are about 2500 flocks of over 2500 sheep in New Zealand,” Mr O’Shea said, “and the number of holdings of a thousand acres and over is approximately 6000. The membership of the Farmers’ Union to-day is well over 20,000 so it may be seen that the union must be thoroughly representative of the average New Zealand fanner. There are not 200 squatters in New Zealand, let alone 20,000.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 48, 25 January 1938, Page 2
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109FARMERS’ UNION. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 48, 25 January 1938, Page 2
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