DAIRY prices

Hokitika Guardian, 21 September 1937, Page 6

DAIRY prices

FARMERS DIVERSE OPINIONS -J -f~ . ! ~ : (Per Press' Association —Copyright). MASTERT£>N‘,v ; September 20 An extended debate on the subject of. the guaranteed dairy prices developed at a meeting of the Waifarapa Provincial Executive of tslie Farmers’ Union to-day. It was 1 remarkable because '' a' sharp tliffeVFnce bf opinion was disclosed between the' dairy farmers. . ; c • b -•«. i Thev'sheep farmers present refrain?, ed from taking part in the.’discussion.. .. r. v .-A; •; . j E-v entua ! !y, tWS> v Fcathefstori remits, one. .of them : approving ; 6fF tile [ principle of the stabilised dairy prices, ■ and thd-'other that the.;new 'season,\s. price: was -not sufficient; to y iineet' yn^eased'.-costs, ' were both to . branches. '. o: tonioj* >’■ : \ !>.* Reporting bn of tKfe '•* Doi minion Farmers’ Union Executive* at 1 which be had represented the Wai- . rarapa'^Pfovincial Air r W. J. Thomas contended that the guaranteed price was inadequate, and that the increase that had been made in it' might be cancelled out % rising costs during the period for which the price had been fixed; Two other members oF the Provincial Executive. Messrs G-. A. HahSen and F. E. Jansen, strongly supported the guaranteed price. ~ : ‘ Mr Hansen declared that much of the opposition to the guaranteed prices, including that of the Dominion Executive of the Farmers’ Union, was for political purposes. ~ i !*■ Mr Jansen said that the principles of stability and of .security -were cm>-F;A bodied the guaranteed price, apd. v jj -these* were acceptable to eighty,per cent of the dairy farmers, and prob- ’ ably to ninety per cent of their number'.. '' „, ’ . - - . : .. ,y While' Mr Thomas had contended that compensated prices and jgjytran-’ teed prices were exact reversals, one- 1 of the other, Air Jansen, declared ! that both compensated prices'' and* guaranteed prices were much the same thing. f