Farmers and Taxes

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 220, 13 June 1933, Page 11

Farmers and Taxes

Sir, —In a recent issue of “The Dominion” there appeared a letter signed, "Treat Them All Alike.” If this writer would attain the evidently desirable status of the farmer whom he envies he must forsake the streets and pictures and his easy chair and go into the wilderness and carve out a home for himself. Then he would learn that farmers are born, not made by Orders-in-Council. If he has the necessary grit, there are numerous openings in New Zealand, which, so far, is merely scratched. He would then discover that the farmer who is waiting to thrown tools down at 5 o’clock is not going to make a fortune at farming, but if he wants to succeed, must work early and late —in fact, he must love work for work’s sake, not merely for gain. Let “Treat Them All Alike take off his' coat and show the world he is made of the right stuff, or stop grousing, ns such an attitude will get him nowhere. The unemployed are indeed lucky to be provided with relief jobs and certain payment. A few years ago such was not the case. If a man was out of work he had to get his swag up and look for work wherever he could ilud it. —I am, etC ” GRIT. Mauriceville, June 8.