CORRESPONDENCE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 9 June 1923, Page 12

CORRESPONDENCE.

A FARMER'S VIEWPOINT

* (T-o the Editor.) "' ;:'' bir, Just a re^v hues, noning somebody more able than myseit* »ill take the matter up, as it i s about time farmers began to try and get some share ot ttnats going instead of being the cow to be raimea oy everybody else Atter all m JNew Zealand everything comes oft the land. Well, our returns" say for wool, are still below pre-war rates. Beet, 1 find by my boois* was tor average tat cows m ly()6 and 1907 ±-1 a head dearer than to-day. ' Butter to-day wholesale is about md. But on tne other hand everything the , tanner requires is dearer to start with. He has to be. born or imported, and oetween doctors and musu.g homes double; then if he has bad luck or SifrTvi* 0 get T Vried 10° moie. When he dies to finish there i« another ri.se before he descends and no more worry, but while he lived he had to pay increased rates for everything. Take interest—at least 2 per cent rise. He sells a beast for £4 or so\ goes into one of your H hotel, or 'fifh shopt? 3" dP. ays another rise, in spite of the drop m bread, meat, butter and firewood, which still keen from 10# to lS) per cent above pre-war rate. It is all i?nJ°in' m Wa2€S are the caus^' because 10 per cent would cover that and eaye a profit. If the farmer sees a lawyer, 10s 6d instead of 6s 8d ■ if he i'SV hT* 1& against, Bay? r,? ?; for hacks 10s against 5s 6d And so the game goes on. Not much ca°f n l' {! y°U Pick "Pa ™ie™on |Mt2lM Now, though a farmer 5 cannot " et money to improve his farm and can-y Sn Uf ' H anl am°Unt of »°^v a !i io, und for the towns; instance £UOOS?f £? OOjOO° f T °r * «« and on a fnL 0 T^ bui. lding a fine house on a faim with no improvements, and f thing, g0 6 th are am be the .same. Instead of our flocks inB^ 11 n<? + -Jear mWe than like'V we shall have to import wheat and f }m quite of Sir J. Ward's onin on that lf f is not done before the end of 1924 there will be the biggest smash S* Zealand ever saw. wf are lucky hitii hr\ held on. d«ring the slump! Svthi^ i qUlte im P°ssib'c to save mtanr? *° Wai' dS Pu aymg °ff ' aS in most. Ranees farmers have had to meet a |ise m interest, and if we did save a ;ejr pounds it is f av«d by starving the arm and decreasmsc production. Again iop,ng for more able men than mf se f 'O stir tlungs up a bit.—l am, etc FARMRR.