WHEAT FARMING
INQUIRY IN AUSTRALIA. / SYDNEY, Thursday. At the wheat inquiry Mr Ernest Field, president of the Fanners’ and Settlers’ Association, said that farmers were supplying the cheapest wheat in the world to Australian mills, yet the people were paying more for bread than any others. The cost of wheat lands bought by the Government for soldier settlements was too high. Mr Arthur Aston, president of the Farmers’ Defence Association, gave evidence that in 1933 the position of wheat-farmers appeared almost hopeless. They had been unable to reduce accumulated debts. The cost of farm labour had come down, the rural worker having met the farmer at every turn. The inquiry was adjourned.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 2 March 1934, Page 6
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