Plight Of The Farmer
Sir,—My sympathies; 1 hope, are always with those in trouble; but I find my sympathy with the farmers facing drought losses more than a little strained by their querulous demands on the Government to come to their rescue. They’have had a long succession of good years, and only those who have bought their farms recently at‘grossly inflated prices should be unable to meet this sort of a
“knock,” which was once regarded as inevitable once in every few years and was provided against accordingly. But when your correspondent, “B,” indignantly wants to ! know why the churches are : not calling the Deity to the ! farmers' aid and urges the Na- | tional Council of Churches; to ! establish by consultation with i the stock and station firms ; the precise financial degree of the justification for diyine in, i tervention, my stomach rei bels.—Yours, etc., SLIDE RULE. February 28, 1970.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32235, 2 March 1970, Page 12
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