Speaking at the Farmers’ Union ConI ference in Hastings to-day. Mr. JlebinI ton. secretary Wairarapa Farmers’ . Inion, said that the farmer was being ■ falsely accused of being responsible for the increase in the cost of living. That was a libel which the Farmers’ Union should combat by propaganda. He instanced the case of a suit of clothes which cost c.j 5 - before the war ami wnich now" cost £$ 8 -. a difference of £-J 3 - The extra price the farmer got tor the wool which made a suit of clothes was. at'most. 3 <o that the manufacturers and tailors divided the ether £3 between them. Mr. J. H. I Toll considered that the best way far-I mors could explode their reports ons" to mix at hotels and c.’i trains tba ' glllC-Hi 'ubkl Ulld —
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume IX, Issue 145, 5 June 1919, Page 6
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