FARMER’S POSITION.

Wairarapa Age, 10 December 1921, Page 7

FARMER’S POSITION.

(To the Editor.) Sir, — I notice by the papers that three or four employees of the State Coal Department in Christchurch who were suspended as their boss thought they were negligent, have been reinstated on. appeal to a high tribunal—good, luck to them. But, see here, this is the point where the shoe pinches me hard. I have been farming for 17 years, and about 4 years ago as my three boys were growing up I bought an extra bit of land. Now this transaction, which was undertaken on the advice of my backers, is all the trouble. The interest is due. I can’t meet it. Rates have to be paid, land tax is worrying me, and my wool, from which I expected £l5OO, realised £350. My mortgagees are going to sell me up, and I will be out of a job and on the road. I have not been negligent but worked real hard, done the very best I could, and I am to lose everything, it’s real hard. This is the question I want to ask. They say this is a farmers ’ Parliament, but have they set up any tribunal to see that men like me who have not been negligent but done my level best and worked 10 and 12 hours a day not thrown out of a job?—l am, etc., DOWN AND OUT.