SETTLERS’ HARDSHIPS.
RENOUNCING DAIRYING. TENDENCY TO LEAVE FARMS. (By Telegraph.—press Association.) WHANGAREI, Friday. Reference to the current tendency on the part of backblock settlers to give up dairying for other forms of primary production, was made by Mr. M. Dempster, at the annual meeting of the Hikurangi Dairy Company. He said lie believed that unless assistance was given by extended cream collection facilities the farmers in the remote districts wpuld find other ways of earning a livelihood. The speaker drew attention to the large number of clearing sales, and said that dairymen were not selling their herds because they had ceased to love money; they would still be “cow cookies,” but they realised the hardship of the milkers’ life, which under present regulations were more difficult than ever, and before long a tremendous number would give up dairying to run fat stock or sheep, or walk off the farms altogether.
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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20247, 16 July 1937, Page 6
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