A PRICE ILLUSION
"Our plans for the past few years," said Mr. James Stevenson,< chairmaD N.Z. Farmers' Co-op., Christchurch, ''have been based upon the reasonable assumption that prices for New Zealand primary produce would stabilise at somewhere near 20 per cent, above pre-war level, and that unit coats of production would gradually be reduced in proportion. During the last two years this expectation has become illusory. ' The interests of this association are bound up closely with the interests of the farmer, and while the present pi tun.-! tion lasts we can only exorcisa whatever ability and prurience we possess i" safeKJiarrjitf.K as well as possible the interest.;; •>f all connected with us, and conserving, our strength in readiness for the better times, which are sure to come when this (lepressrixin passes."
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 90, 13 October 1931, Page 12
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131A PRICE ILLUSION Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 90, 13 October 1931, Page 12
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