PEOPLE NOT CONSIDERED

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 487, 17 October 1928, Page 8

PEOPLE NOT CONSIDERED

SUMMER TIME BILL CONFIDENCE IN MR. POLSON Press Association. WELLINGTON, Tuesday. “Those who voted against Mr. Sidey’s Bill in the first place have a lot to do to reconcile their consciences,” said Mr. Lynch (Manawatu) at the Dominion Farmers’ Union Executive meeting this morning. A Delegate: “The whip cracked.” Mr. Lynch: “Yes. They were loyal to their party and were not looking to their constituents.” Other delegates declared they had not had a fair deal and a motion of. protest was carried. An emphatic denial that the funds of the Union were being used to further his candidature was made by Mr. W. J. Poison, of Fordeli. He said the allegation had been made by his opponents and definitely made by the Minister of Lands in an open letter to the Press in Taranaki. He had not used the union in any way. He was standing as an individual and his candidature had nothing to do with the Farmers’ Union. “You know me well enough to know that all through I have kept the organisation out of politics,” he said. Mr. W. Morrison (Wanganui) confirmed what Mr. Poison said. Mr. Morrison said he was one o£ the political committee set up twelve months ago, Mr. Poison, above all others, was one who kept the Union out of politics. Mr. Poison also repudiated any connection with the Country Party. He met nobody at Rotorua and took no .part in any selection. A motion was passed that the executive had the fullest confidence in Mr. Poison in his carrying out to the letter the constitution of the Farmers’ Union.