FARMERS' WISDOM.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 126, 30 May 1934, Page 5

FARMERS' WISDOM.

"WE TALK LOOSELY."

CONFERENCE EPISODES.

"COLOSSAL GREED OF MEN."

Dnricg the recent Farmers' Conference in Auckland, Captain H. M. Rushworth, M.P., said, among a lot of other things, "We talk very loosely at times. And, in looking back over the sessions, some remarkable statements were made, and Mr. Rusliwortli's remark recalled some of them. , One speaker, dealing with the present financial conditions, said it was all the fault of "that colossal fool Winston Churchill." When talking on the small farms scheme, one said. "The land chosen was fourth-class land, and even with unlimited manure, no man had a chance of making a living or even a crust of bread." Waxing eloquent on the monetary system, a delegate said, "The whole trouble was the colossal greed of man. There's nothing wrong with the monetary system. America's greed had been her downfall." The delegates were not in agreement with this man, and he was caled an "obstructionist." One of the older members, after listening to twelve hours' talk on Douglas credit, said, "I suppose I am as stupid as an ass (quiet "hear hears" from the conference), but I don't know what you have been talking about at all."

Other remarks were: — "Costless butter can be exchanged for costless clothing." "You can make a profit out of nothing." "New Zealand will soon be a garden of beautiful ragwort."

"You may just as well give the Government a 100 per cent order on your cream cheques and trust them to provide you and yours with the necessaries of life," whereupon another delegate, a pessimistic one, remarked, "Well, the undertakers would soon have a call on the orders,"