FARMERS’ PROSPECTS.
WOOL OUTLOOK GOOD
BETTER TIME FOR, DAIRY FARMERS.
(by telegraph—press association.) FEILDINGj May 28. On taking the presidential chair at the Feilding A. and P. Association’s annual meeting last night, Mr. J. G. Eliot, M.P., referred to the prospects for the farmers. .He said that the wool outlook was good. There was a very small carry-over from last blip apt), the prices were quite, satisfactory, iv>Jh bright indications for next season’s olip. Batter prices were increasing, and he expected that a good year wais ahead for the dairy farmers. Referring to farmers’ difficulties, he said that the present -system of rural finance was unsatisfactory. Financial institutions, especially the banks, thought only of dividends. The Arbitration Court system was operating to the deteriment of the farmers. Labour leaders and their followers 1 took a distinctly class view. He would do his best in Parliament to give farmers a better system of rural finance and to improve their conditions in other ways.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 28 May 1927, Page 5
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