FARMERS' DIFFICULTIES
HAMILTON, May 23. Mr. A. A. Boss, in his presidential address to the Auckland Provincial Fanners' Conference, said farmers were finding it more, and more difficult* to mane ends meet despite the .high production and good prices. He quoted the Canterbury College bulletin showing that the values of exported goods in terms of New Zealand general prices during the ppst .seven, years were 12 per cent, beiow 15)14.. He also cited the heavy burden of rates, taxes and high interest charges, It w.".; no wonder .settlement had come to a standstill. Jlmy men bad to walk off their farms-. The root <• ''ic of the evil was that tho jvcl •■-.->!■ for export was the only :..;:,'. working under the conditions competition demain/ded. " This necessitated system."-
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Stratford Evening Post, Issue 62, 24 May 1928, Page 3
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