TOO COMPLICATED.
QUESTIONS FOR FARMERS. COMPLAINT AT AUCKLAND. (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, May 18. “It is absurd and ridiculous to send these things out,” said the president (Mr H. 0. Mellsop), displaying to delegates at the Auckland Farmers’ .Union conference to-day a sheaf of papers asking for detailed information concerning farming operations. “The Government has sent these papers out to a number of dairy farmers to get information that will' be used presumably in determining the guaranteed price for next season,” said Mr Mellsop. “However, these forms are so complicated and require such a vast amount of information, that I am doubtful whether the ordinary farmer will have the ability—if lie has the inclination—to fill them in. Perhaps the move prosperous farmers will employ accountants. In any case, the papers will have little value in providing a cross-section of the degree of prosperity or otherwise of the average farmer.” A delegate: These forms are being sent, out only to brainv farmers.
The president: Did you get one ? The delegate :01i, yes! (Laughter.) The conference appointed a. committee to investigate the matter.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 58, Issue 185, 19 May 1938, Page 4
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