FARMERS AND FOOLS.
DIFFICULTIES OF EX-SOLDIERS. (By Telegraph.—Special to Star.) WELLINGTON. July 2. “It has been often said that any fool' could he a farmer,” declared Mr Bitcheneir, member for Waitaki, in the House to-night. “I have been one of those all my life.” (Laughter). The member turned the ioke away from himself by adding that if he jiad turned his hand to the professions which were fleecing the farmer he would have been better off to-day. The Government had been, warned for fooling soldiers who took up farming, but it could not be assumed that because a man made a fine soldier he was sure to be a good farmer. He knew how generously the Government had-treated soldier settlers, though nobody could make - success of farming if he had to pay a high rate of interest on the money borrowed.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 3 July 1924, Page 5
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