PORT FACILITIES.
To the Editor. Sir,—The sheepmen must indeed possess sheep’s brains if they imagine Christchurch should be quite satisfied with its present shipping facilities. Whilst local farming magnates pass comfortable resolutions regarding our port, Wellington gets busy and is having a large industrial motor works established there. This is owing to Wellington possessing adequate shipping facilities. Why should these sheepmen’s opinions seem so important? Are we to infer that New Zealand must be governed from a sheep’s back? I suppose it is the old cry of the primary producer. Who is the primary producer? Is he the youth that drives the horse that pulls the drill that sows the corn? Or is the primary producer the bank that loans the money to the stock and station agent that advances to the landholder that employs the contractor that hires the youth that drives the horse that pulls the drill that sows the corn?—l am, etc., N OT-A-W OOL-GATHE RE R.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17758, 30 January 1926, Page 2
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