FARMERS’ WORST FOE.

Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19899, 30 May 1936, Page 23 (Supplement)

FARMERS’ WORST FOE.

i WITHIN HIS OWN RANKS. PRESIDENT'S PLAIN SPEECH. I HAWEBA. Friday. i The worst enemy the tanner had to‘day was the farmer who was always Itlismragihg his own industry, and ‘who emphasised the worst features of ithc rural prohiem, said Mr \V. A. ‘Sheut, in his presidential address at the annual conference of the South 'i‘urzmuki ihram‘h of the Farmers‘ Union iii-(lay. Such men, he said, were largely responsible for creating iihroughout ihc irnuniry a psychology inrouraiflo to depriving the farmers of their rights at self-government. i “If that attitude is allowed free rein," Mr She-at added. “it will produce an atmosphere favourable to the complete separation ref farmers from the control of their business is for these reasons that I suggest for ‘the future determined efforts to re—store among the rank and file of the farming community a spirit of hope for the future at confidence in the industry, and, sibove nil, in the capacity of the farmers of New Zealand, given a reasonable opportunity to work out their own salvation, to make a success of ecu-operative management; and to play what must always be the major" part in the development of New Zea—l land." ‘ Mr “K J. Poison, MIL. who was present, endorsed Mr Sheut‘e semi-l ments.