FARMERS' TROUBLES
TEMPORARY MEASURE
QUESTION IN HOUSE
"Will the Prime Minister tell the country what he plans to do, until the Royal Commission on sheep farming suggests a possible remedy at the end of September, with the ever-increas-ing number of mixed farmers who can no longer meet rents, wages, and interest?" asked Mr. T. D. Burnett (National, Temuka) in an urgent question addressed to the Prime Minister (the Rt'. Hon. M. J. Savage) in the House of Representatives this afternoon.
There were hundreds of farmers who, notwithstanding having had substantial writings off in their debts by adjustment commissions and with all forms of credit now exhausted, were confronted with walking off their farms, Mr. Burnett added. Relinquishments of farms were increasing in volume.
In reply, the Prime Minister said that Mr. Burnett knew that the Royal Commission had been set up to find out what the position really was, and until it reported it would be difficult for him to say what had to he done. In the meantime he suggested that Mr. Burnett should supply details of specific cases rather than speak in generalities.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 5, 6 July 1939, Page 11
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185FARMERS' TROUBLES Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 5, 6 July 1939, Page 11
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