FARMERS' SUPPORT.
ANTI-COMMUNIST DRIVE. Per Press Association., DUNEDIN, June 4. Enthusiastic support for the 11.5. A, in its eiforts ■to expose the activities of Communistic influences in the Dominion was forthcoming at the annual conference of the Otago provincial council of the Farmers’ Union. The conference adopted a resolution urging the suppression of all subversive activity, the dismissal., without superannuation of public servants round participating in 6uch activity, and the cancellation of the naturalisation papers of naturalised foreigners discovered taking any part in subversive activity. Before the discussion began, an unknown visitor, suspected of being Communistically inclined, . .who v admitted having come to the meeting to hear arguments against , Commupism, was asked to leave the conference. At the annual meeting of the Otago branch of the Farmers’ Union the following motion was carried unanimously:—“This conference assures His Majesty King George VI and his Ministers of the unswerv pg loyalty of the farmers of this province to the Throne and Empire, and pledges itself to do all in its power to assist and accelerate the war effort of this Dominion.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 158, 5 June 1940, Page 6
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179FARMERS' SUPPORT. Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 158, 5 June 1940, Page 6
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