Why Not Use Post Card?

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVI, Issue 43066, 9 March 1907, Page 2

Why Not Use Post Card?

A capital suggestion was made the other day by the “ Farmer and Settler,” the official organ of the New South Wales Farmers and Settlers’ Association, which urged that every farmer affected by a certain measure should make a point of sending his member a post card protesting against such continued disregard .of his interests. Why not adopt a similar idea here? Says the “ Farmers’ Weekly.” If every freeholder in the colony, and all those who are interested in preserving the right of Crown tenants and those who may be intending to take up Grown lands later on, were to address a post card to the member for his district before the opening of Parliament, or say during the first week after Parliament re-assemh .ed, urging that the freehold should be given in connection with all Crown lands leased in small areas, there would be such a freehold awakening in the House as to end, once and for ever, the controversy which is now agitating the country. There is policy in letting your member see your hand. Give him to understand what you want and intend, and if he is at all “.wobbly” you will soon corner him, • i