PRIMARY PRODUCTION
Sir, —The president of the South Canterbury Primary Prdduction Council, Mr L. V. Talbot, says it would be as well if Parliament were called together as soon as possible, to discuss, among other important questions, the decline of primary production. Production is sliding, and will continue to slide, if nothing is done to arrest the rapid soaring of the cost of farming. ■ The farmer is getting a serious set-back this year in the drought. He has done his very best to produce, at a high cost. What consideration is he to have? Some men are asking 3s 6d an hour for haymaking and harvest work. But I am pleased to state that there are good men willing to work at the old rates. They are the men that will be sure of employment in the future—if we can manage to carry on. If not, “What shall the harvest be?” —Yours, etc., A.B.C. January 7, 1944,
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Press, Volume LXXX, Issue 24150, 8 January 1944, Page 6
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