DAIRY PRODUCE
RETURNS WANTED FARMERS^RITICISM (By Telegraph—Press Association.)' AUCKLAND, This Day. "It is absurd and ridiculous to send these things out," said the president, Mr. H. 0. Mellsop, when displaying to delegates at the Auckland Farmers' Union conference today, a sheaf of papers asking for detailed information concerning farming operations. "The Government has sent these papers out to a number of dairy farmers to get information that will be used, presumably, in determining a guaranteed price for next season," said Mr. Mellsop. "However, these forms are so complicated and require such a vast amount of information that I am doubtful whether the ordinary farmer will have the ability—if he has the inclination—to fill them in. Perhaps the more prosperous farmers will employ accountants. In any case they will have little value in providing a cross section of the degree of prosperity or otherwise of the average farmer." -' • . ■_. A delegate: These forms are being sent out only to brainy farmers? ■ The* president: Did you get one? Oh, yes. (Laughter.) The conference appointed a committee to investigate the matter.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 115, 18 May 1938, Page 6
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