NEED FOR RELIEF.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 212, 8 September 1938, Page 22

NEED FOR RELIEF.

SHEEPFARMERS' PLIGHT.

(Prom Our Correspondent.)

WELLINGTON, Wednesday.

If New Zealand sheepfarmers are not quickly given some relief from the difficulties which they are facing, many stations in the high country and Burrounding plains will go out of production, the Dominion will suffer serious loss of revenue and unemployment will be increased. This is the opinion of Mr. W. Stuart Wilson, of Wellington, who recently spent several weeks in the backblocks of Marlborough. "The matter is of such supreme national Importance," said Mr. Wilson, "that I believe a special commission should be appointed, and I suggest that the Chief Justice,' Sir Michael Myers, should be the chairman.

"Mr- J. S. Thompson, accountant, of Blenheim, has informed me," added Mr. Wilson, "that the graduated land tax is a burden that the farmlands of the I Dominion cannot, carry. Mr. Krrol Reid, [ also an accountant, of Blenheim, publicly [stated at a sheepfarmers* meeting last week, that, even if there were no taxation, sheepfarmers on poor country would still be losing 1/ for each head of stock each year." Stock diseases and noxious weeds were other serious problems which the aheepfarmer had to face, in addition to] bjjgk toj mod rising Costa 6f aU kinds.