PLIGHT OF N.S.W. FARMERS
REDUCED COSTS ADOCATED.
“PEOPLE BLEEDING TO DEATH,’’
By Telegraph—Press Assn.— Copyright. • . t Sydney, Dec. 4. A conference of primary producing, banking, mercantile and insurance interests met at Sydney and made an appeal for the man on the land. . , The chairman, Mr. James Kidd, said country people were bleeding to death. It was stated that the debts of wheat farmers to business firms, storekeepers and the Rural Industries Board amounted to £10,500,000. A large proportion of graziers were in a similar plight. The conference urged measures to reduce the costs of production and to form a State and Federal Council.
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Taranaki Daily News, 6 December 1930, Page 7
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