FREE POST WAR MARKETS

Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23445, 27 September 1941, Page 3

FREE POST WAR MARKETS

* “FARMERS MUST PLAN AHEAD” (P.A.) AUCKLAND, September 26. Although, during the war, a certain amount of controlling restriction cannot be avoided, the farmer must plan for the time when freedom of action and the right to dispose of his produce how and where he wishes will be restored to him. said Mr H. E. Worsp, the chairman, at the annual meeting of the Auckland Farmers’ Freezing Company to-day. As the farmer had to pay his own costs of operation, rates and taxes, and the interest on the purchase of all requirements to pay for labour, and use his own brains and energy to ensure maximum production, it would be a gross injustice if, when the war was over, he was told that his produce would be common property. The farmer was an individualist and inclined to look upon his boundary fences as his horizon, overlooking the fact th§t his business was being attended to By other people and in such a way that unless he bestirred himself he would, when the war was over, find he was no better than a serf. Although every farmer was prepared to suffer restrictions during the war, and do his utmost to assist the national effort, there was no reason why his rights should not, ultimately, be restored. After emphasising the need for the New Zealand farmer to produce the highest quality of products to meet after-war competition, Mr Worsp referred to the excellent production of last season, and said that an optimistic view might be taken regarding the coming season’s prospects.