OKAIAWA.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLIV, Issue XLIV, 7 May 1924, Page 2

OKAIAWA.

(From Our Own Corerspondent.)

HIGH RENTS

Mrs Willcocks is an optimist. Optimism is good, and a thing to be commended ; but, like everything else, it is possible to cairry it a bit too far, and it should be tempered with a little caution. I hone that lier estimate of Is 6d per Ib butter-fat will turn out to be correct, but at present there is nothino; to justify it. For July and August of the present season the Joll Company paid out Is 2d, and for the succeeding months Is 3d, and a gentipman who is in a good position to offer an opinion informed me that we will be lucky if we, get any more, I have been dairy farming fo^ a good many years now, and have a pretty good idea of what can be made off the land. During those years I have suffered all the losses to which the dairy farmer is liable, and of which I suppose every dairy farmer in the district has had some experience. In estimating the returns ijrom a farm a pretty liberal allowance must be made for possible, nay probable, losses. Dairy farming is a hard lif?, and the -nan"who under j takes it deserves an ample recompense Under present conditions, my symapthy goes out to any man who, perhaps by force of circumstances, is compelled to pay a high rent. It may lie said by some that T am butting in and inter fering in what does not eoncesrn me personally; but I consider it my duty to issue a, word of warning to those j who are apf to be a bit too rash. In • this I feel sure I will be supported by • all except those who have farms for lease.