RISING COSTS
OPINION OF WAIKATO FARMERS Hamilton, Feb. 20 Commenting to-day on the resolutions passed at South Island dalrj conferences, condemning the action of the Government In the freezing works dispute, Mr R. H. McKenzie, chairman of the New Zealand Co-op-erative Dairy Company, Ltd., said the Waikato farmers held the same opinion. The Government’s action, ho said, had set an exceedingly dangerous precedent calculated to make the position of employers intolerable. “There is also a unanimous opinion among all, shades of political thought that the farmers should he compensated for all the increases in costs subsequent to the guaranteed price scheme coming into operation,’ he added, ‘Surely it is Iniquity that costs made up almost entirely of labour should have been computed on the same basis as the guaranteed price.” '
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXV, Issue 12257, 22 February 1937, Page 3
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