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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20636, 11 December 1941, Page 6

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DAIRY-FARMERS PROTEST

Strong dissatisfaction was expressed by the Makara-Hutt Valley provincial executive of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union at a recent meeting when discussing the prices payable for meat for the coming season. It was pointed out that though the producer of lightweight lambs was getting an increase no section of the dairy-farming industry was receiving any benefit from the extra payments made by the United Kingdom. It was felt that the claims of the dairy-farmer had been disregarded and the following resolution. was carried unanimously:— ‘‘That this executive enters the strongest possible protest in regard to the treatment of the dairy-farmer under the arrangements for the purchase of meat for this season, while many dairy-farmers have been compelled to change over to cheese at great financial loss to themselves. They have been deprived of the increments in m'ices paid by the British Government, and the dairy-farmer has been singled out to suffer another cut in his income by having the price of boner beef reduced by 5/6 a 1001 b. We, therefore, call upon the Government at least to restore to the dairyfarmer the price paid last year.”