FARMERS AND SHIPPING.
A remit for tho Provincial Conference of the Farmers' Union .urges that tho producers of the country should own and control their own shipping. There is something underlying this remit that does not appear upon , the surface. The farmers arc" apprehensive that the great meat combinations of America and England will manipulate the shipping to thojr own advantage, and to the serious disadvantage of the producers of the Dominion. This apprehension is more than justified by the development of recent, events, and the producers have every right to protect themselves against" the foreign octopus. But would it not be in the interests of traders as a whole, and of producers in particular, if the State were to own ocean-going as well as intercolonial shipping? There would then be no danger of the exploitation of either producer or consumer.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11752, 6 February 1918, Page 4
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141FARMERS AND SHIPPING. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11752, 6 February 1918, Page 4
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