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Shannon News, 18 May 1928, Page 3

Exception was taken to the alleged political partisanship of the Farmers' Uujon journal, Farming First, by the Waikato sub-provincial branch of the union at a meeting last week. Mr Henderson said he considered the paper run in a spirit quite contrary to that , in which a farmers' paper should be run. It contained, he said, matter and cartoons impregnated with rancour, and it was really a scandal that such matter should be put out as the feeling -of the farmers. Mr Hanna (Te Awamutu) said that when he pointed out that the interests of the Farmers' Union were being subordinated to those of the Farmers' Political Party, the editor partly admitted that such was the case. Other members declared that the Farmers' Union was a non-politi-cal body, yet there was no doubt whateveMihat the official journal was taking up a political attitude. It was cleeided to support a motion from Te A Awamutu in protest against the journal's pohey.