Farmers' Union.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 234, 26 July 1902, Page 3

Farmers' Union.

SOU II CANTERBURY BRANCH

A meeting of the Executive of the South Canterbury branch of the New Z-almd Farmers' U'don was held in Tnnaru on Thursday to receive the report o': the delegate to the C-jlonUl Conferenca.

Mr J. F. Vaimie, report*! at length on the work clone, and waaccor 'ei a very hoaity vote of thanks for his services.

In the discission which tol'owed Mi Maslin chiracteriiwd the Colonial Conference as a wretv h 'd abortion, and said that South i y hid been indue;d t > j >in the Union under a misapprehension, He and other numbers passed some very severe strictu es on the Conference for its action in dealing only with those nutters whioh suitel it, and throwing out all that did not suit it, aB being t-io closely allied to politics. They claimed that if the Union >as not to dfiscuss matters political that affected them detriment dly, they might as well " cut the painter " at once and cease to ex ; at as a union. I' was a light that the humblest citizen could not be denied, and they as a union should not let politics alone till politics let them alone. Mr D. McLaren, Mr W. F. Ward, and M J. Anstey strungly suppoited these vhw3. Some ttrictures were also passed on the South Canteibury Executive, the Waimate membeis complaining that it whs nf.t suflicien ly progressive. Ii was resolved that the Timaru branch o r the Union, which has become difu'.cb, -Mould hi rc^iissititod.