RELIEF OF FARMERS.

Southland Times, Issue 21836, 13 October 1932, Page 2

RELIEF OF FARMERS.

To the Editor.

Sir, —With reference to proposals foi the relief of farmers the following additional suggestions are offered in order that really adequate relief may be given:— 1. The banks should be compelled to disgorge their gold. It should be given to farmers to make bells for their cows, ear-rings for their wives and false teeth for the toothless ewes. 2. More bank notes should be printed, thereby increasing the country’s credit and giving steady employment for printing firms. 3. Land tax should be abolished in order to save the expense of collection thereof.

4. The importation of petroleum should be suspended pending the investigation into the merits of butter as a lubricant with a view to assisting the sale of farm produce. 5. A mice and rat war should be declared by the Government, thereby promoting the increased use of cheese in traps. 6. Telephones should be abolished (except for purely rural uses) in order that adequate fencing material may be made available for the farmer. 7. Government railways should be abolished as they constitute an increasing danger to wandering stock. 8. All income tax paid by farmers for the last twenty years should be refunded and the Government be permitted to borrow seventy millions from somewhere, or for that matter, any where, to carry out the suggestion. 9. Parliament should be composed entirely of farmers to enable these proposals to be carried into effect.—l am, etc. OTTO NEHEMIAH.