"ONE CRUMB OF COMFORT"

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 31, 5 August 1936, Page 12

"ONE CRUMB OF COMFORT"

(By Telegraph.)

(Special to the .' 'Evening Post.")

AUCKLAND, This Day. In the course of its editorial on guaranteed prices, the "New Zealand Herald" says: "Nothing is allowed'in the basic price, already loaded with the exceptionally low rates obtained from 1932 to 1935, for the impending higher scale of wages not only on the farm but also probably in the factory, for the rapidly-rising cost of farm and household necessities, and for taxation. Thus the dairy farmer, haying been deprived of what he had considered to be his inalienable right to market his produce, starts his. season's work with the definite knowledge that" liis net return will be substantially less" than' last season. His one crumb of comfort is that he is guaranteed against ah extraordinary market collapse, a contingency that seems -very, remote in view of existing prices and the general buoy-, ancy of the industry in Britain. Under the circumstances the Government cannot expect the farmers to be content with their lot, yet that might'well have been the text of Mr. Nash's economic sermon to them. Agpmsthis bondage there is no appeal."