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DEPLORABLE STATE.

OTAGO MILK INDUSTRY. FARMERS CONCERNED. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) DUNEDIN, Thursday. "With the "wholesale and consuming prices too widely divergent, the farmer is not getting a price which will give him a reasonable standard of living," said a report to to-day's meeting of the Otago Milk Producers' Association. "The usual winter output ie down by 50 per cent and feed is in short supply and expensive to buy. The milk producing industry is in a deplorable state." It was reported that many farmers were giving up milking and that more would follow unless the prospects improved. The meeting was the third held within recent months, and proof was available that at last producers were organising as a body and that contact had been made with the Dunedin City Council on the question of municipalisation of supply. While the original proposal of a "strike" for higher prices appeared to have been rejected, a few members were openly pessimistic of a municipal scheme being adapted, one stating that the ratepayers would be foolish to approve of a loan of £250,000, which would cauee the consuming price to be further advanced.

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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 155, 2 July 1937, Page 9

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DEPLORABLE STATE. Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 155, 2 July 1937, Page 9

DEPLORABLE STATE. Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 155, 2 July 1937, Page 9

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