RICHES OF FARMERS
'COMMON FALLACY' EXPLODED. "Common Fallacies" associated with the primary industries of New Zealand were touched on at Tuesday's meeting of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce Council, called for the purpose of discussing the chamber's attitude towards the move to raise the rate of exchange. "People are very apt in this country to confuse the idea of sheep farmers with wealthy men," said Mr. W. B. Matheson. "There are perhaps 3000 wealthy men among the farmers, but there are 50,000 small men who last year were not getting wages." The chairman, Mr. J. P Luke, president of the chamber, said that another common fallacy was that the farmers kept the cities. "They never have, and they never will," added Mr. Luke.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXVI, Issue 3449, 24 November 1932, Page 5
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