GUARANTEED PRICES
OPPOSITION BY FARMERS [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] DANNEVIRKE, Thursday The provincial executive of the Southern Hawke's Bay Farmers' Union passed a motion that it was emphatically opposed to the principle of guaranteed prices, and having in view the position with regard to guaranteed prices for the dairy industry, strongly protested against a fixed prico for wool and meat being brought into elFect. The president, Mr. J. Livingston, considered that fixing prices was only taking the credit of an important industry for creating liabilities for the country which would become a serious burden upon industry in the future. No matter what prices were fixed for wool and meat,-the farmers would have to pay in the end.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22657, 19 February 1937, Page 14
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117GUARANTEED PRICES New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22657, 19 February 1937, Page 14
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