A Sunday feature – each week a random section scanned from a copy of The Standard, September 15th, 1938. Find out more here.
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1938 15
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I had always understood that the first Labour Government had a lot of support from small farmers. I did a little Google search in support of my understanding which stems from NZ History studied in 1968 and came up with a 1975 thesis that seems to show that there were a lot of manual labourers outside of farm workers living in rural electorates which might account for the level of Labour support in the rural areas. How they would have enjoyed MMP and a party vote!
I note also with some amusement that the Farmers’ representative organisation was a Union.
The Farmers Union is still a union. With fewer and fewer members.