Farmers’ threat
PA Wellington Farmers yesterday threatened an angry reaction if the Government made big cuts in the agricultural sector after the announcement by the Prime Minister, Mr Lange, of a $3.2 billion Budget forecast deficit. Addressing a wool and meat conference in Wellington, the president of Federated Farmers, Mr Brian Chamberlin, said Mr Lange had announced that the expenditure of the big three — health, welfare and education — would not be touched.
This meant big cuts in other areas, specifically defence and agriculture, Mr Chamberlin said.
“With a massive and growing overseas debt, it is absolutely crazy to be cutting expenditure in the only sector which can increase export earnings.” -Farmers were already bearing a totally unfair burden of Government restructuring. Mr Chamberlin suggested the Government should instead reduce social welfare spending and deliver an affordable social policy.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19880701.2.3
Bibliographic details
Press, 1 July 1988, Page 1
Word Count
138Farmers’ threat Press, 1 July 1988, Page 1
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Press. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Copyright in all Footrot Flats cartoons is owned by Diogenes Designs Ltd. The National Library has been granted permission to digitise these cartoons and make them available online as part of this digitised version of the Press. You can search, browse, and print Footrot Flats cartoons for research and personal study only. Permission must be obtained from Diogenes Designs Ltd for any other use.
Acknowledgements
This newspaper was digitised in partnership with Christchurch City Libraries.