"TOO MUCH ADVICE"

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16376, 25 June 1927, Page 6

"TOO MUCH ADVICE"

FARMER AND HIS TROUBLES "ECONOMY THE SLOGAN" Tlip farming community has no dearth of advice in the matter of surmounting their difficulties, and this fact was commented upon by lr> W. Coop, president of the Poverty Pay A. and P. Association, at the annual meeting to-day. When he was reviewing the past year's operations, the president said: "It appears to me that fanners in their troubles are criticised and advised by men in every walk of life, and I am inclined to think it is very much overdone." There was was a general "Hear, hear" when the president made this remark. ".Matters of bank interest, Arbitration Courts, land deterioration, wool deterioration and costs have been discussed from one end of New Zealand to the other, and I do not wish to take up your time on these subjects to-day, as I would only be repeating what von have already been told."

The president, however, did give a little advice.

" Economy is the slogan for to-day, for town and country alike," he said. "New Zealand's income has to be derived from our standard of living. City people must realise that prosperity to us means prosperity to them. The prices received for our produce is of vital importance to every man, woman and child of the Dominion, and we want their help to bring about a greater degree of prosperity. It is essential that, labor, capital and the producer must work together. "The cost of living will come down to a lower level. The Government will have to take the tax off the necessities of life, and increase it on luxuries, and money and labor will have to find a lower level. When we get on all fours with each other, money will get more evenly distributed aiming the people and you will see greater prosperity."