Relief for farmers
Sir,—As the wife of one of the fanners doing an 18-hour-day stint on his farm, I heartily endorse the remarks made by Margery Moyse. Many farmers are not landed gentry but ordinary working men who, by sheer tenacity, drive, and hard work, have managed to fling themselves, loaded with debt, on to their own farms. Many live in substandard, rotting dwellings that no city wife would even look at, let alone live in. Very little money is left at the end of a working year to improve their habitat. Surely these qualities of tenacity, drive, and hard work are the very qualities that should be encouraged in the people of a young and growing country. Alas, this is not the case; the lazy and the shiftless are the ones who are pandered to. Not all of us are greedy. All we want is a reasonable standard of living with a share in the prosperity we have given to this country. —Yours, etc., NOT ONE OF THE LANDED GENTRY. February 24, 1971.
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32541, 26 February 1971, Page 8
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