POSITION OF FARMERS.
TIMARU, 13th May. Mr. John Kelland, member of a wellknown 'family of sheep breeders, is retiring afber thirty-five' years' farming at Kakahu. , He was presented with a mark of esteem . by a number, of old friends. In making the presentation Mr. John Talbot remarked on the different estimation in which farmers are held to-day. ,He said, when Mr. Kellan'd^ began farming, farmers were not considered "the backbone of the country," but interlopers, and were contemptuously called "cockatoos" by runholders, whom they . were displacing.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 113, 15 May 1911, Page 3
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86POSITION OF FARMERS. Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 113, 15 May 1911, Page 3
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