QUESTIONNAIRE FOR FARMERS
GOVERNMENT SEEKING INFORMATION (United Press Association) AUCKLAND, May 18. “It is absurd and ridiculous to send these things out,” said the president, Mr H. O. Mellsop, displaying to delegates at the Auckland conference of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union today a sheaf of papers asking for detailed information about farming operations. “The Government has sent these papers out to a number of dairy farmers to get information that will be used presumably in determining the guaranteed price for next season,” said Mr Mellsop. “However these forms are so complicated and require such a vast amount of information that I am doubtful whether an ordinary farmer will have the ability—if he has the inclination—to fill them in. Perhaps the more prosperous farmers will employ accountants. In any case they will have little value in providing a crosssection of the degree of prosperity or otherwise of the average farmer.” A delegate: These forms are being sent out only to the brainy farmers. 1110 president: Did you get one? The delegate: Oh yes. (Laughter.) The conference appointed a committee to investigate the matter.
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Southland Times, Issue 23512, 19 May 1938, Page 4
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