FARM DRUDGERY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 106, 6 May 1936, Page 11

FARM DRUDGERY.

HARROWING PICTURE DRAWN. WP7ES AND CHILDREN. (By Telegraph.—Parliamentary Reporter.) WELLINGTON, Tuesday. A harrowing picture of the drudgery on dairy farms was painted by Mr. D. McDougall (Independent, Mataura) in the House of Representatives to-day during the second rending debate on the Primary Products Marketing Bill. It. was through the slavery of the wives and children of the dairy farmers, said Mr. McDougall. chat they had been able to build up a worthwhile business.

Most of the dairy farmers were tied lo the stock and station agents, and had no control over their produce. They were not allowed to get the cheque and take it home with them and pay accounts; they had to give orders on their cheques. <

Mr. MeDougall said he thought Mr. Poison, the member for Stratford, knew very little about dairying. In fact, he would be surprised if he could milk a cow. (Laughter.)

After declaring that the capitalist system had failed, and that he would support the bill, because he believed it would give the farmer a?id his wife a better standard of living, Mr. McDougall said that members of the Opposition had offered to co-operate with the Government, but they were doing their best to' block the bill and keep the fanners and their families as the slaves of the financial institutions from the cradle to the grave.