"LUXURIES" ON THE FARM

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21378, 30 December 1932, Page 11

"LUXURIES" ON THE FARM

gj r ,—"No Motor or Wireless" seems to think that a farmer who works hard practically every day in the week should pass his days within his fenced paddocks without any mental uplifting influence whatsoever. I am a hard-working farmer and possess „ neither wireless nor car, as I cannot afford to buy one. But I realise the car is a necessity in the country and the wireless is mental relief, when one's 18 hours a. day are done. The man who would deprive his fellow of any mental recreation, however small, had better confine him to gaol or slavery. The present situation will sooner or later find its own level, and this level must be in many instances lower land values. It will certainly make many a broken home, heart and spirit, but come it must. It has taught, I think, that contracts for the sale of land or mortgage should be elastic on, a more or less partnership basis, so far as turnover is concerned, striking the basis, as a starting point, as Bh average price received over the past seven years, the rate of interest to rise or fall rc/und this average as the price of the farmer's commodity. ' No Wireless.