DULL TIMES WILL PASS

Feilding Star, Volume 6, Issue 1911, 23 May 1928, Page 5

DULL TIMES WILL PASS

OPTIMISTIC’ OUTLOOK (per Press Association), Auckland May 21. An optimistic view concerning the future of ihe agricultural industry in New Zealand is held by Ah- l‘ ■ W. Jones Into managing director in New Zealand, of the International Harvester Company, who 101 l bv the Aorungi yesterday ior a world tour. I*or the past IS years Mr Jones has been in close contact, with the farming community in the Dominion. find conditions are improving nil over the Dominion,” said Air ••-lies. “The season lias been a splendid one for cropping, whiloi good prices have been realised |o ( . wool and lamb.” Mr Jones said that generally speaking larmei's were working they land belie,r than they used in. Alter the boom period, during and immediate! v alie.. the, war, there was a tendency, for farmers to become careless, but in recent years they had become more cautious. “1 feel sure the dull time will soon pass.,” added AL Jones ■‘list before leaving Christchurch I was fare-welled by a large gathering of I'arme'rs, .and there was a most optimistic feeling abroad. 1 '