“ WE WANT OPTIMISM ”

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 10436, 6 January 1927, Page 7

“ WE WANT OPTIMISM ”

FARMER SAYS HIS BIT

In breezy style, a South Canterbury farmer, who is in a big way of business, metaphorically “blew” into the Timaru Herald office on Tuesday,

and seizing upon the first reporter he met exclaimed in very emphatic style:

“Here/ can't you strike a note of optimism; I’m sick of all this talk of bankruptcy and threatened leaving of farms. This place was always too pessimistic. anyway, and that’s the only thing that’s keeping it back. The land is good; we have an excellent harbour, and everything is in our favour, if only we would work instead o! proclaiming had times from motorcars and street coiners. What's wrong with the price of wool, anyway? I've got over a thousand sheep, and I got seventeen pence per pound for my wool last week. Last season was one of the best we have had for wheat. Lamb, too, is quite a fair price. What we want is less croaking and more production. I had my horses at the feeders at half-past five, and I harrowed ton acres of land before T came into town. I have been going to come in for some ten weeks past, and I felt compelled t<> come in to-day to suggest that the doleful prophecies of the past should he buried with the old year, and a note of optimism struck for the new one. We have every reason for optimism, and no reason for pessimism.”