TIED TO AGENTS

Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 106, 6 May 1936, Page 6

TIED TO AGENTS

DAIRY FARMER'S POSITION

'"■.'Mr.•'MX' McDbugall (Independent, Mataura) said he knew what the dairy farmers had been' through, and how they had built up.a worthwhile business. It was through the slavery of their wives and children. Most of the dairy farmers were tied up to the stock and station agents, and had no control, over their produce. They were not allowed to get the cheque and take it home-with them and pay accounts; they had to give orders, on their cheques. . He. thought that the member for Stratford knew very little about dairying. In fact, he would be surprised if he could milk a cow. (Laughter.)

What liberty had a dairy farmer got at present? This, Bill was going to help him, and also provide the means whereby the farmers' wives would get something for their labour. Very often they-had the heaviest load. The capitalist system in this country had failed, declared Mr. McDougall. It was responsible for the present condition the country was ,in,, and unless the Government- took it over the position would remain as it was. He was going to support the Bill, as he believed that the farmer and his wife would have a better standard of-living. Members of the Opposition had: offered to cooperate with the Government, but they were doing their best to block the Bill and keep the farmers and their families, the slaves of the financial institutions, from the cradle to the grave.