THE WHEAT POOL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 50, Issue 130, 14 March 1930, Page 6

THE WHEAT POOL.

FARMERS' UNION VIEWS. THE MAN OUTSIDE. The Wheat Pool was the subject of a brief discussion by the Mid-Canter-bury Executive of the Farmers' Union this afternoon. Mr W. T. Lill referred to . the troubles of a farmer regarding his connection with the Pool. He said the Pool Avas holding £IOOO of his money, and he could not afford that. ' The president (Mr J. R. Dalton) said the Pool had had a most difficult time, because there was always someone readv to ride on another man's back, in tnis case by holding out of the Pool. He was sure that the men in the Pool next year would be on the box seat. Officers of the Pool were prepared to speak at any centre on the subject. We pride ourselves on being Britishers, but there were some farmers who were holding out and causing the whole trouble. They were holding .out .and receiving the extra shilling made up by those who had put their wheat into the Pool. Mr Lill: I am saying nothing against the Pool. Mr Oakley: The man you speak of has probably got as much now as he would have got if there had been no Pool. The matter then dropped,