FARMERS' PROBLEMS
NEED FOR CO-OPERATION INDIVIDUALISM CONDEMNED That farmers were at fault in not co-operating to strengthen their demands for better prices was the contention of Mr. J. E. Strachan, M.A., principal of the Rangiora High School, in an address to young farmers in Christchurch. He said that the apafliy of the man on the land was largely responsible for the present state of primary producers the world over. "The farmer is essentially an individualist, " said Mr. Strachan. He will never co-operate. If farmers in New Zealand were of one mind, they could dictate terms to the rest of the community, and their terms woulft have to be accepted. "But they will not do it," he continued. "The farmer is about the one man in the community who will not put a price on his goods, but waits for the fellow at the other end to make an offer." Mr. Stachan added that at one time the farmer commanded attention. Now, through his own fault, nobody cared what he did.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22172, 27 July 1935, Page 13
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