DECLINE IN PRODUCTION
O.C. PALMERSTON N., This Day. One of the most serious aspects of the food position in New Zealand was that the Farmers' Union was not allowed to have its statement on the position published in full, declared Councillor A. B. Shannon (chairman) when the Oroua County Council yesterday discussed a report that the Government had failed to take action to arrest the serious decline in primary production. "There is a food crisis right at our own doorstep," Councillor Shannon declared. Councillor B. McLeod said that farmers were suffering from a feeling of frustration, since all efforts towards encouraging production had been turned down. "After three weeks work in the freezing works the men were given a holiday in the middle of one of the 'driest seasons known," said Councillor |R. Stewart. "My contention is that the cost of production is so great today that the inducement to produce more is not there, beyond, of course, the patriotic motive," said the chairman. \
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 16, 20 January 1944, Page 4
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164DECLINE IN PRODUCTION Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 16, 20 January 1944, Page 4
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