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Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 270, 11 August 1938, Page 18

“I have been warned not to say too much about the guaranteed price in '.his district because, .1 understand, it is popular,’’ said Mr. C. A. Wilkinson, M.P. for Egmont, during an address at Feilding. But if, he argued, the guaranteed price was so successful, why was it that so many dairy and cheese factories were closing down, and why was production failing? Factory payouts before tiie guaranteed price came iuto operation, taken over a period of years, had been higher, and what was of equal importance was that the money paid Out was not. depreciated as it was to-day, he said. The Hon. W. Lee Martin, Minister of Agriculture, had claimed that the guaranteed price in Taranaki was popular with the farmers, but in Mr. Wilkinson's opinion not 10 per cent, of working tanners in tiiat district would support the Labour Government. Despite the swing to Labour in 1935. no representative of the party was returned in Taranaki, and today, with the definite trend against Labour, there was no prospect of a Labour candidate being returned