FARMERS AND SHIPPING.
We hope that the farmers of the Dominion will take‘tip the suggestion to urge upon the Government the need for a line of Stale steamers, •' by which produce may be shipped Home, and ignore the specious arguments advanced by interested individuals against- such a proposal. Those who prefer to' see, the farmer exploited by shipping and other combines have, of course, no sympathy whatever for the State-owned steamers proposal. The Australian. State-owned steamers have provided tho producers of that country with an independent means whereby they may be sure of their produce reaching, the Home market under reasonable conditions. The farmers of New Zealand should either prevail upon the Government to secure a small fleet of steamers, or they should provide their own steamers, which could ho-subsidised or otherwise assisted by the Government. So long ns the farmers nre- prepared to sit down and bo made the sport of combines, so long will, they have cause for complaint, as to their treatment. —Wairarapu Daily Times. ■ - .
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15466, 10 March 1921, Page 5
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