MONEY FOR FARMERS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 136, 11 June 1927, Page 4

MONEY FOR FARMERS.

THE STRUGGLER NEGLECTED. TV GOVERNMENT VALUERS. < r.y Tic graph.—Special to "Star.") ! DUNEDIN, this day. i At the_ar.ntt.il meeting of the Perpetual! Ti E.-tate and Agency Company. Sir j • jFi •.'.wick said, the company has at I ; : >•.moment no less a sum than ] *.2 "t.»»i iiivvstoil on mortgage on behalf! i lnnt» piituipa'.ly in Otaco and South-1 i.-.th'.. but to a fairly larue extent in Cim-j ti-i ■ Jay. He added:— 1 >jjj ing the past year there lias been as a li.le ample money available lor sound scc;aities. This has at least be'.n oar e.\;'Ci ieJiee. \\ iiiie dealing: with this j..a livJiiar Matter it may be w ell to draw the attention of the Minister of Finance T-.t the iaet that any complaint there may have been that money has not been available iii a sufficient amount for farm Mcarit.cs is d;ie to an appreciable extent to the Government's own lendinc departments. It is a well-known fact that Government valuers have too largely conlined their attention to borrowers who ci'iiid readily have obtained all they iC'inn'od fivm other source;, and have phoed i:i a secondary position the securities of struggling farmers who have not quite the same margin of security to oer. It is the latter who are really most in need ■>! a:sl.-taij'o from the State and Km al