FARMERS AND POLITICS
MINISTER’S VIEWS SHOULD BE KEPT DISTINCT Pi'ess Association DUNEDIN, To-day. Speaking as a farmer, not as a Minister of Lands, the Hon. A. D. McLeod, at the annual meeting of the Otago Farmers’ Union, advised farmers to keep clear of party politics. He believed that any participation in party politics would cause the disintegration of the union and destroy its usefulness in moulding public opinion. Many would regret that their president, Mr. W. J. Poison, was entering the political field. In recent years many of Mr. Poison’s views had become highly impracticable and he was, in the speaker’s opinion, the mouthpiece of one or two economists with little practical knowledge of farmers’ problems. The annual report of the union said that there was no doubt that a large majority of farmers were strenuously opposed to Daylight-Saving, which was to the detriment of women and children in the country.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/SUNAK19280605.2.112.12
Bibliographic details
Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 372, 5 June 1928, Page 14
Word Count
151FARMERS AND POLITICS Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 372, 5 June 1928, Page 14
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Sun (Auckland). You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in