Readers Write

Northern Advocate, 25 January 1940, Page 4

Readers Write

In your issue of January 24, appears | a statement of Nelson’s fine lead ini patriotic giving. At a meeting there! they collected a sum]

PATRIOTIC FUNDS.

of £SOO in 15 min-i utes. This makes good!

reading. Here is the j lead Mr Mac Kay and Mr R. Coates! are looking for. ] Instead of tirading against tjhe \ Government —whose efforts, by the I way, to help Britain in the present i (struggle have received the highest \ praise from every corner of the Bii-] tish Empire—why don’t they get intoi line and give some practical Let us leave politics out of patri- j otic meetings. There is a time and ■ place for everything.—“OßSEßVEß.” j Your correspondent, “Yet AnotherShareholder,” appears to belong to a] I school of thought, which believes in!

BOBBY CALF MARKETING.

living for the day, ■ and letting the fu- \ ture take care of!

itself. The point that interests me, is, who will buy our calves, pigs and other fat stock in ten or twenty years’ time? Some interests at work have a very definite object in view—namely, to control the whole of , the meat export business in the Auckland Province. Does “Yet Another Shareholder” realise what this would mean? Does he remember getting 2d per lb for his pigs before the P.M.A. came into the field? Also, what sort of a service was provided? Docs he realise that the £IOOO is a sprat to catch a mackerel? Does he realise that his policy would mean one buyer for all fat stock, with a price to suit the purchaser, the seller having no say? I suggest that all farmers should read the findings of the Royal Commission which inquired into the operations of the meat trust in U.S.A. and then try to get the meat business back on the rails before it is too late. —E. BABE (Waikiekie).