CORRESPONDENCE

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIV, 28 February 1929, Page 5

CORRESPON DENCE

MAKING ENDS MEET.” [ . , r . "Ilailv Advertiser”) L Several of your correspondhave had a tilt at the ‘,/V'O' iation, the latest ar- ' - \ Puzzled Dairy FarE He want- the “Finance Ad- \ Board” to help him make ■ |ir et—thi- i- a sarcastic tone: Appears to have an entirely ... ciii..'ption of the sugges■"that met with the approval of Ljjs: meeting of retailers. KnowL little about the retailers’ wor- ; like to accept the im--7 4sllw contained in the beone'.- letter, and to ask him B te would proceed to make ends , if he were a retailer. Now, Mr w, there are the following ... aninst which the retailer on: -(1) the C.O.D. system; (2) itinerant traders s hawkers: (3) bad debts, and hcredit system generally, (4) t .fs con.vijoent on changes of fiiuii in some traders and the falls of prices in others; (5) continijlr increasing expenses through Station Court awards, taxation ; ; |5) the disloyalty of people >o spend their money in other ms. Whether the retailers will atsat to advise the farmer or not (and sav, but 1 want to say that k have as much right to proteeufrom the Government as the man h buys a farm. Both take their st, when they invest their money. [‘Dairy Fanner” did not take in- ■ consideration the price of his d the cows it would carry, the tM from these cows, the probable me from them at ruling prices, itost of labour and living expenst and put the one against the fer lo see whether he could make lisneet, he certainly needed advice it someone even if that someone is only a retailer. —I am, etc., “PUZZLED MORE.”

’o the Editor, Daily Advertiser). 'ir,—“A Puzzled Dairy Farmer” 45 fw advice from the Finance l®ory Board of the Retailers’ ■nation, and is little likely to get ander a cloak of anonymity. May a humble unit of the body politic, *fa the advice he wants, or raB asks for? The dairy farmer of ” Zealand is in no need of the Stance given ’. the Australian ■Anient, and, with discursive Options wh o a ,-.. f OO b US y eomto work, is doing very nice- ' thank you. I was in Australia ffst lj l and as the result of the e, ernnient assistance to dairvmen . prife butter is so high" that People who must need the food butter are unable to have J -s needed of it. Butter in New d is plentiful and provides the »„' ** ne<f '' i s use d freely, ,ea ’ in our sister country it is P rov ided upon the tables of pfopj'. if the puzzled one will k an 'i i a k e t 0 bard work e >n the position of non- ■ erg and wiil be making ends 111 Phee of asking someone else am, etc., LESS INK, MORE SWEAT.