ARE YOU PLAYING THE GAME.

Clutha Leader, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 91, 4 June 1912, Page 5

ARE YOU PLAYING THE GAME.

(To the Editor.) Sir,—Two years ago the fanners derided to co-operate and start n freezing works. They were not content with the prices they were obtaining ior their lambs, etc., and in one ;woop decided to take it upon themselves to alter this state ot affairs and seep all the profit that was going out of the district to themselves. The natural consequence of thoir decision was to increase *he price of their products tit and in its tail the price of land increased and the district in general benefited. I took ten shares in the company to.help things along and am proud of it. Rut what do I find but his—quite a number of fanners holding back in the traces, and not content with the increase in lamb prices brought about by the advent of the freezing works, they are using their own works to hit the outside buyer up in price so that he may (or thinks he may) scratch a threepenny bit a head more than what he can receive from his own works, which has been instrumental in increasing the price of his lambs by 2/ to :>/6 per hoad. If this doesn't take thcjcakc .hut in the name of goodness does ! Here we (ind some of our own farmers, for sheer greed, damaging the works which they themselves have helped to put there. Why, bless my heart, if these men were not getting within a shilling a head of what the S.O.F.C". are able to offer, they would be getting a shilling or eighteen pence more I than they would have been getting if , »ve had no works. Farmers, J say to i you, for heaven's sake get ,out of this I illegitimate scratching for the last j penny. We cannot live for ever, and . while you do live like men, get out iof the mere race for money and you i will become broader, healthier and I happier men and into your souls many avenues of pleasure will open.—l am ! fi^c _ "TIIRRKPENNY BIT." June Ist, 1912.