A COMMON CASE

Northland Age, Volume 1, Issue 5, 6 November 1931, Page 3

A COMMON CASE

“Several years ago I borrowed £IOOO from the bank, relying on my farming returns to repay it,” writes a Northern Wairoa farmer to the “North Auckland Times.” “By payment of small sums at intervals off the principal and interest as per bank scale, I have paid over £IOOO and stiil owe about £6OO. As things are at present, I see no hope of paying this debt off, and it will assuredly eat up my equity and deprive my children of any hope of succeeding to my farm, notwithstanding many years of labour of myself, wife and family, in effecting improvement, and all the amenities which go to make a country home.” What South Island Farmers Want The South Island Conference of the Farmer’s Union at Christchurch last week demanded a suspension of all industrial awards, a thorough investigation of all Departmental expenditure by a non-political and expert authority, a downward revision of Customs tariffs. The abolition of the graduated land tax by the Government was commented on, as well as the promise of a Royal Commission to investigate local body expenditure.