PIG CROP SUBSIDY

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 54, Issue 32623, 19 September 1945, Page 5

PIG CROP SUBSIDY

■«•—- —•. FARMERS’ COMPLAINTS PRODUCTION COUNCIL . further step to be taken No reply having been received to its representations about the administration of the pig crop subsidy, the matter was discussed at length again at the meeting of the Thames District Council of Primary Production Mr AY. H. Cheale said he had received further complaints, which he detailed. Anomalies had cropped up; some applicants had received nothing, others half the subsidy, and others the full amount. The necessity for inspection was emphasised by Mr Cheale . “The present way it is being done is not business,’ he said.

, ‘Mr Cheale moved that by newspaper advertisement all farmers in the district? who had not received last year's subsidy and had filled in their A and B forms, be asked to communicate with their local councillors. This

was carried. •• Mr Cheale moved 1 that a letter also be written to the National Council, •asking what was the position of farmers who had failed to fill in their B forms.-

The chairman, Mr S. E. Hall, said -- lie was not in favour of this, but the motion was seconded by, Mr W. Buchanan. “A number of farmers were confused by the number of bodies administering the scheme,” he said. Mr C. W. Schultz suggested that this matter be held over till the next meet-

iug, as payments were now being made.