Economic package

Press, 24 December 1985, Page 16

Economic package

Sir, — The Government’s efforts to reorganise agricultural industry on a permanent and viable basis should be rewarded with co-opera-tion rather than misinformed and orchestrated opposition. Sore losers from the National Party should remember that it was their inept and antiquated administration, headed by the Financial Wizard, that got the nation into its present predicament. Nine years of cumulative inflation of around 16 per cent annually is thq root cause of farmers’ economic problems. Sir Robert Muldoon’s interventions only mortgaged the future to defer inevitable change. Those who would live in the past should have regard for the economic facts of life on the international scene. Messrs Douglas and Moyle are receiving considerable approval and encouragement from within fanning, circles for their strategies, which are adopted without regard for political expediency in the interests of the nation’s future. That is an essential difference between this Government and its predecessor. — Yours, etc., ' JOHN FURSDON. Oxford, December 18, 1985.