GUARANTEED PRICES

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 194, 18 July 1939, Page 8

GUARANTEED PRICES

PREMIER AND FARMERS. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, July 17. • Replying to-day to a statement made by the Dominion president of the Farmers’ Union (Dir W . W . Mu 1 holla 11 cl) concerning the guaranteed price, Mr Savage emphasised that his main object was to learn from the dairy farmers themselves whether they wanted to scrap the Government’s marketing and guaranteed price policy. If their attitude represented a genuine attempt to release the dairy farmers from the policy put into operation as a means of helping them to be free from the vagaries of the overseas market, it was obvious the Government must take notice of it and seek to learn the minds of the farmers on the matter. Dir Savage described as a complete somersault Dir Dlulholland’s statement that the Government deserved well of the industry for the energetic manner in which it had established the marketing organisation in London. lie dealt also with the “cool assumption” by Mr Dlulbolland that it was intended to hand over for the industry all the present facilities for organised marketing to a few private individuals. Again assuring the farmers of bis deep interest in their welfare and desire to have from them a first-hand clear statement whether they thought the present marketing system with guaranteed prices was an improvement on the-old order of things, Mr Savage said the present dairying season would probably end with the farmers getting an aggregate of about two million pounds more than they would have received if Mr Dlulbolland had been successful with his propaganda against the Government’s policy.