FARMERS’ TROUBLES
POSITION GETTING WORSE. (Per United Press Association.) Hamilton, May 22. Mr A. A. Ross in his presidential address to the Auckland PYrovincial Farmers’ Conference, said that farmers were finding it more and more difficult to make ends meet despite the high production and the good prices quoted in the Canterbury College bulletin showing values of exported goods in terms of New Zealand general prices during the past seven years 12 per cent, below 1914. He also cited the heavy burden of rates and taxes and high interest charges. It was no wonder that settlement had come to a standstill. Many men had to walk off their farms. The root of the cause was that the producer for export was the only man working under competition and demanded “radical reform in our economic system.”
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Southland Times, Issue 20493, 23 May 1928, Page 5
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135FARMERS’ TROUBLES Southland Times, Issue 20493, 23 May 1928, Page 5
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