PROUD OF GOVERNMENT
GOOD FRIEND OF FARMERS REFORMER NO OLIVER TWIST (From Our Own Correspondent) CAMBRIDGE, Monday. Mr. D. S. Reid, Reform candidate for Waikato, would not be Oliver Twist. He told a wellattended meeting at Cambridge tonight that the Government had done so much for the farmers that he could not ask for more. Mr. Reid, who received a favourable hearing’, defended the Reform administration, saying that the more he saw of it the better he liked it. Mr. Reid defended the Government’s action in authorising the Taupo railway, and warmly praised the Government for helping the farmers. It had done so much for them that he, as a farmer, would be ashamed to ask for more. Mr. Reid’s remarks regarding the Country Party created much interest ‘and caused some opposition. He said the Country Party’s participation in politics was likely to break up the Farmers’ Union. The party did not represent the feeling of the farmers of the country as it claimed it did. The Government was the cleanest they had ever had, and he was proud of it. He would make no pledge, and asked to be elected with a free hand. The candidate received a vote of thanks and confidence, on *a divided vote.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 504, 6 November 1928, Page 12
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208PROUD OF GOVERNMENT Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 504, 6 November 1928, Page 12
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