AID TO FARMERS
Sir, —May I offer a suggestion that I feel certain would simplify the task of the Government in the matter of dealing with the serious position facing dairy > farmers owing to the drop in export values. -:\t least- it would avoid any interference with exchange, which we do not want if it can be averted. I would suggest:—(a) That the Government request experts to furnish returns immediately showing at what standard value for exports farmers can carry on. (b) That an estimation be made of the sum required to bring the pay-out for butter and cheese up to this standard, and the Government raise a loan (internally, if necessary) by au early effort, (c) When butter-fat prices on the overseas markets reach the standard value set by the experts a halfpenny be deducted from every penny increase, to repay the loan. There may be loopholes in the above suggestions, but no doubt it would prove simple, could be done expeditiously and would be acceptable to dairy farmers, apart from other virtues. In fact, if the above is a sound way of coping with the serious state of affairs, it no doubt would be applicable to all spheres cf farming activities. Waikato,
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21359, 7 December 1932, Page 14
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204AID TO FARMERS New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21359, 7 December 1932, Page 14
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