DAIRY FARMERS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 78, 25 June 1943, Page 4

DAIRY FARMERS

PENALISED BY GOVERNMENT VIEWS OF MR~iROADFOOT (From Our Parliamentary Reporter) Wellington, This Day. Exporting producers in New Zealand had been penalised for the last four years in order that an unfair advantgac might be given to other sections of the community, said Mr W. J. Broadfoot (Nat., Waitomo) in the House of Repre sentatives last night. He thought dairy farmers had been penalised most. Those farmers had realised that stabilisation was essential and the price of their produce was stabilised in 1938. For nearly four years the dairy farmer had watched costs, prices and wages rising against him with no relief whatever. The average rise in the price of imports from Great Britain was 65 per cent, and the average rise in the export of dairy industry was 7 per cent. If a dairy farmer were saddled with 1943 costs he wanted 1943 prices. Mr Broadfoot said he was diffident about suggesting that they should ask Britain for a higher price, as Britain had been extremely generous to New Zealand, but he thought that Britain would agree to a higher price if she were asked. Mr Poison (Nat., Stratford): This Government would probably grab it if there were a greater price. Mr Broadfoot: There's no question of probably. It's a certainty.