REALLY HARD UP

Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 3784, 30 July 1932, Page 4

REALLY HARD UP

That the farmer is as hard up a« he. is-commonly reported to he is not so- readily believed by tho Doubting Thomases ol the city. Hut anyone who knows anybody. running any kind of a farm to-day knows that farmer generally i s in a parlous statC Certainly, he can and should he getting a living for himself and family off his holding. But that much needed hard cash is.ivory conspicuously absent. A case- in point was prov‘tied at this week’s meeting of the Ma-nawatu Babbit Board. Tlie Fnspector reported that several ratepayers had informed him that they had been unable to find the necessary money to purchase cyanide to carry out the Board’s poisoning. The cases cited were genuine cases of hardship. The farmers concerned stated that they d el not have a penny and would not, have until the cows came in again.