GUARANTEED PRICES
A FARMER’S VIEW. DUNEDIN, Thursday. “I believe the principles underlying the Government’s guaranteed price policy are sound and advantageous to primary producers, and so far as dairy produce is concerned, I see no reason why the Government’s marketing scheme should not prove beneficial to farmers and the Dominion generally,’’, said Mr John Smith, president, at the annual meeting of the South Island Dairy Association this morning. Success, he added, would depend largely on the extent to which the return to the farmer would compensate for the increased costs involved in the improved wages standard. Probably the Government thought that adjustment of farm mortgages would more than offset the increased costs. The prospects for the industry seemed brighter than for years, added Mr Smith, and whether or not farmers were responsible for the election of the present Government, they all hoped that the change would coincide 1 with the beginning of an era of prosperity. -(P-A.) v ‘
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 26 June 1936, Page 6
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