Farms Deserted

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 93, 24 August 1923, Page 5

Farms Deserted

REQUEST FOR ROYAL COMMIS* SION. Per Press Association. Wellington, August 23. Mr A. E. Fear, Dominion Organiser of the Dai y Farmers’ Union, aldressed Members of Parliament today on the subject of setting up _ a Eoyal Commission to make a genuine inquiry into the financial position. Ho said farmers were walking off their farms all over the Dominion. In one district alone there were 37 empty farms in one riding. The Dairy Farmers’ Union was. anxious to stop the exit of farmers off the land and they had asked the Government by deputation to set up a Hoyal Commission to visit all the leading centres of the Dominion and take evidence. They asked that committees of Chambers of Commerce and business men should be set up in the main centres, with practical 1 armors on each committee in conjunction with the Dairy Farmers’ Union, so as to get the necessary information concerning the financial position of the farmers of the Dominion.

The object was to keep up production and to be in a position next session to give an unbiassed report on the exact position of farmers in the Dominion, with a view to having everything in readiness when the moratorium is lifted on December 31, 1924.