FARMERS’ POSITION.
DIFFICULT TO MAKE ENDS MEET "RADICAL REFORM NEEDED” HAMILTON, May 22. Mr. A. A. Ross in his presidential address at the Auckland Provincial Farmers’ Conference said the farmers were finding it more and more difficult to make ends meet, despite high production and good prices. Ho quoted a Canterbury College bulletin showing the values of exported goods and terms in New Zealand in general. Prices during the past seven years were 12 per cent, below those of 1914. He also cited the heavy burden of rates, taxes ■and high interest charges. It was no wonder that settlement had come to a Standstill. Many men had to walk off their farms. The root cause was that the producer for export was only a man working under competition and it demanded a "radical reform in our economic system.”—(P.A,).
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Wairarapa Age, 23 May 1928, Page 7
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138FARMERS’ POSITION. Wairarapa Age, 23 May 1928, Page 7
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