FARMERS' DIFFICULTIES.
RADICAL REFORM URGED. (ratasisaociiTios'TELßOEAu.) . ' HAMILTON,'May. 22. Mr A.; A. 'E6asi in ' his presidential at the /''Auckland Provincial Farmers Conference,: said, thatfarmors wete finding itimore and; more-difficult to niake ends meet, despite high production and good'prices. 'He', quoted a Can. terbnry Collego bulletin' showing ' that values of exported goods in terms- of "New Zealand general prices during the. past-s'eveh year's\ were 12 per cent, be* ' lowr-1914: valuesi • -He ialso cited the burden; o£ rates and taxes and Mgji interest charges;; it' was no wonder,- he said, 'that settlement had come to "a standstill' "and many men had to off; itheir -farms; The root cause the producer for export was. the oily man working under competition;": "• ■ ' <Mr 'Koss ■ iaid the position demanded .Vvifeforn* \ in our economic i^atemv'' : " j
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Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19317, 23 May 1928, Page 10
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