GUARANTEED PRICE
SOUTHLAND PETITION
(V>y Telegraph—Press Association.)
.INVERCARGILL, September 17.
Regret that the Minister of Marketing had shown no disposition to alter his stand on the guaranteed price and that the dairy farmers' front had been weakened by the carrying of a motion of satisfaction with the price at the Lochiel factory meeting was expressed at a meeting of dairy farmers this morning. Delegates sent to Wellington to meet the Dominion executive of the New Zealand Farmers' Union and to confer with the Minister of Marketing reported on their mission to 150 farmers present, and the opinion was unanimous that in Southland there would, under the price, be little left for the farmer after rising costs had been met. After discussion, the following motion was carried:—"That this meetin* appoint a committee representing the Southland branch of the New Zealand Farmers' Union and the South Island Dairy Association to formulate a petition to be signed by dairy farmers in Southland and presented to Parliament, expressing views of dairy farmers with regard to the Government's guaranteed price for the current season."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 69, 18 September 1937, Page 14
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