A FARMER’S JEREMIAD.
HARD TO MAKE ENDS MEET. RESULT OF EXPORT COMPETITION. (Pfe United Pliess Association.) HAMILTON, May 22. Mr A. A. Ross, ia his presidential address at the Auckland Provincial Farmers’ Union Conference, said that farmers were finding it more and more difficult to make ends meet, despite high production and good prices. He quoted a Canterbury College bulletin showing that the value of exported goods in terms of the general prices in New Zealand during the past seven years was 12 per cent, below the 1914 figure. He also cited the heavy burden of rates and taxes and the high interest charges. It was no wonder, he said, that settlement had come to a standstill, and that many men had had to walk off their farms. The root cause was that the producer for export was the only man working under competition. He demanded “ A radical reform in our economic <w»tcm.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20415, 23 May 1928, Page 3
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