SHAPING OF SACRIFICE
DISTRIBUTING THE BURDEN
The domestic troubles of New Zealand called for a sharing' of- sacrifice, and it was the duty of the Government to see that'there was a proper sharing up, said thji Hon. C. E. Macmillan (Minister of Agriculture), when speaking at Palmerston North last evening. The primary producers, he'pointed out, had suffered the initial loss, the decrease in the two years from 1929 to 1931 being £11,000,000. The farmers had done their share, and the Government had-to. see that the', rest of the coihimunity bore its portion of the burden. [Provided the cost of living and production wore reduced^ in proportion, ,tho farmer could still be happy with lower pri"p-» ~Tho small farm scheme was really a scheme to enable tho funds at the disposal of the Government to. go. further,, said the Minister. One of the essentials was ,that the. man who. was put on each lot had to make way for another if he did not make good; ■ The" country could.not stand those people, being a drag on the'rest.1 They had to bo turned to profitable occupations and so help to inako something of their own living.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 142, 17 June 1932, Page 9
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194SHAPING OF SACRIFICE Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 142, 17 June 1932, Page 9
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