WHEAT POOL BATTLE

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 54, 12 September 1928, Page 11

WHEAT POOL BATTLE

NEW SOUTH WALES FARMERS (From "The Post's" Representative.) "' SYDNEY, 31st August. One of the biggest battles in tho history of the farmers of New South Wales is that now in progress to decide, nest month, whether they will be brought under a compulsory wheat pool, or whether they will elect to trade in the open market. Only two of Sydney's newspapers havo taken any stand in tho matter, and each is unequivocally opposed to the pool. There is a strong feeling that tho pool will bo rejected, especially by the small growers, who, with heavy commitments, cannot afford to wait for advances in dribs and drabs, but want sport cash for their wheat. The growers are being reminded, incidentally, and as a shocking example of what might happen to them, of the sad. story of tho Now Zealand producers in connection with butter control. They are being reminded also that the Act under which the pool will operate is a replica of tho Act iv Queensland, "where," to quote one of tho leading spirits in Iho fight against the pool, "tho first plank in the Government's platform is control of production, distribution, and oxchange." "Arc we," it is added, "to perpetuate tho agony of this socialistic legislation of tho northern State?" Even the farmers themselves are^ unexpectedly spilling quite a lot of ink in espousing or opposing the pool,