“NOT GETTING JUSTICE WE EXPECTED!”

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23343, 28 August 1950, Page 6

“NOT GETTING JUSTICE WE EXPECTED!”

(P.A.) WELLINGTON. Aug. 28 “We are not getting the justice which we expected to get from Britain." declared Mr. W. >• Perrv, Dominion president of t ea crated Farmers, commenting on Britain’s refusal to pay more for New Zealand butter and cheese.

“During and since the war with the possible exception of Australia New Zealand has supplied food at the cheapest prices which Britain pajs, said Mr. Perry- , . ~ “None of us would have suggested during or before the war that we should hold Britain up to ransom for higher prices. We let our hcaits rule our heads. , ... , “Now that supplies are plentiful we are not getting any allowance from Britain on her part. We are paying increased prices for our imports from Britain and these are one of the factors sending our costs up. “Yet when our production costs rise, as thev must do in consequence, then Britain refuses to pay sufficient to meet tfl “The (farming community will feel that it is not getting the justice it expected after what New Zealand had done for Britain during and after the W M’f. Perry said that if the standard of living ot the dairyfarmer was to be maintained on a basis comparable with that of other sections of the New Zealand community then he must have a price for the product sufficient to cover operating it would look as if the industry would have to draw on its rehabilitation funds for the pay-out this sea“lt does seem very wrong that although we are in a period of peak prices we have, at the same time, to be prepared for withdrawals from the stabilisation account, the funds in which were really put aside for a rainy day, he said. .