BRITISH AGRICULTURE.
STATE ENCOURAGEMENT. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Australian an I N.Z. Cable Association LONDON, December 7. Sir Robert Sanders, Minister of Agriculture, addressing the Council of • 3 appointing a departmental committee to consider the difference in the prices v>; commodities that tho producer, received and the consumer paid. It is proposed to spend £860.000 on agricultural research in the next five years, and £160.000 on land drainage before May. Lord Selbourne expressed the opinion that the condition of British agriculture was worse than forty jears ago. Then flic landlords could help the farmers in had times, but now the frimer was absolutely bankrupt owing to his taxation burdens and the low receipts for produce.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16911, 9 December 1922, Page 17
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