HIGH COSTS BURDEN.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 128, 2 June 1939, Page 10

HIGH COSTS BURDEN.

FARMING INDUSTRY. LOWER TAXKS XEEDED. (From <>ur I'urrp-piindpnt.) lIASTFMiS. Tliiir-day. Thp opinion thiit "iiiii-siiitivl pri<-p.- for iim'hl ii nd wiiol wimp of no real \iiliie ;i •_•.( in -1 liiL'h ro-t-i in the fjiniiinir in-dii-tr\ Hii-i p\pi-p«4p<| in two remits p|idoi>p<| fit thp Hiiwkc"- Miiy provincial iiinfpii'iii'P of tin- Kiiiiiipin' I'nion.

In ili'livpriny liis presidential addre*.*, Mi'. I- I!- H. Piii'-t .-Mid many farmer* 1,11,1 "oi 1 i iilih- to maintain their farm- in a wtate of up-tn-tlnto efliciency in I lie past yenr because of rediiied reluriM from their produce. -.luct what "ill happen to thp primary producer." lie said, "is hard to forpte'll. but until thp producer U placed on a muiikl basithe «tau<lard of J i\ itilt mn-t come down. In niv opinion h guaranteed prjpp is n<it a solution as ive see it in the dairv indiir-trv."

The of pxrlian<re. said Mr. Priest, had been talke<l about aixl resolutions Hirried at nearly all mass mectiny- of farmers. Thai "appeared to him '" '"' ""'. a temporary measure, but it hI-o Hppci.rcd to It tin', only wa\ out at thp moment. | ( ~,,,t s «oul,l' not be brought down, then there wan onlv Ihp alti'inaliNp of raising exchan-je. bu't the rai-injj of pxclianjre must n|,,, raise costs, "o wliere would thev linish?

"Tin- cinlv IMTHIiIIII-lit jjoiml mil-l <-,m,r iniiii n-clii.-iiiy cost*." lie added. "It <!<><•* not ncco-mily ii ii rclunnjr lV n«» ,> n flu- fii cm. \V,. |~l w, p.,;,) „„ ~;,,,, „., s In-fore. I.lit .Mi,- ,o,u we,.. l,>»,r. It is tin- wniiPH paid in secondary indu-tries "nil >ul-dics ~H i ,| ,„ Ic.-t.,. i 1,,,.. industries alive that urn up r.,*t<. "If tlit-.p Hii Iridic,) were ~,it into priniHi-v in.liHtiiiN «.. W..11M ], lU ,. i,,. <tohmml priuliiftinii. hikl tli.T.- would hr n<. .(not,. <,„ ~„,. 1.,...!,.,-,.." Mr. (~.;,.-., Cfllll-lllllfll. "I'tlXHtillll lIIIHt lip l|.(ll|[-C(I 'iiiil In ml inx .shoiihl 1,,, i-,.|i,itt(.|| Tli" sfx-iiil -ffiirfrv (fix is ;i t,, x t |,;, t ,!„. '•".iiitiy raniK.t xtiiml at (~„■ nospitiil rntf>< nee rising."