FARMERS' TREATMENT
GOVERNMENT CRITICISED The Government's treatment of farmers was criticised by the Dominion president of tho New Zealand Farmers' Union, Mr. W. W. Mulholland, when addressing Papakura and district farmers at a meeting in tho parish hall. Mr. E. D. McLennan presided. Mr. Mulholland referred to the Government's claim that it had presented the farmers of the country with £650,000, tho alleged deficit, and said this represented in principal nothing more or loss than the ordinary farmers £IOOO overdraft. The rising prices of butter-fat had wiped out more than three-quarters of tliis deficit. Referring to rising prices. Mr. Mulholland said it did not matter if the price of butterfat was 8d or Is 6d a lb. It was no use if the price was Is 6d and costs were Is Bd.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22864, 20 October 1937, Page 18
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