FARMERS GULLED
GUARANTEED PRICE SCHEME OPPOSITION MEMBER’S CLAIM (By Telegraph.—Special to Times) WELLINGTON, Tuesday A claim that the Government had gulled the dairy farmers with the guaranteed price scheme, was made by Mr H. S. S. Kyle (Opposition— Riccarton) during the Budget debate in the House of Representatives tonight. iHe said the failure of the scheme was to be measured by the decline in the number of dairy cows and in dairy production. Costs, had been the main deterrent to higher production. Government members were fond of claiming that /the guaranteed price scheme had been a great success, said Mr Kyle, but if this were so, why had there been a drop of oneseventh in the export of dairy produce, a heavy decline in the number of dairy cows and a decline in the number of pigs? The Minister of Agriculture ascribed it to a turnover from dairying to mixed and other farming, and this did not look as though guaranteed prices were so very attractive to the famers. The leaders of the dairy industry said that the increasing costs were the main reason, continued Mr Kyle. One dairy factory manager had worked out the extra costs this year at £0 a ton of butter.
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Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20891, 24 August 1939, Page 6
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