FARMER'S FEARS

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 35, 12 July 1939, Page 6

FARMER'S FEARS

CAPACITY TO PAY MR W. HARBUTT'S STATEMENTS Mr W. Harbutt. Chairman of tb( Cambridge Co-operative Dairy Com pany, Limited, made a statement 01 his return to Cambridge from ■U« Dairy Federation Conference at Wei lington r concerning his remarks o> the guaranteed price. "It may be inferred from thi Press messages sent from Welliny ton, with reference to passive re sistance, that the guaranteed pricc or the amount to be paid for tlv coming season was the point of m; remarks/' he stated. "If my ie marks had been reported more full> it would be known plainly that ad ditional and increased costs and acl ded taxation were my greatest fear These, coupled with the guarantee price and the capacity of the primal producer to pa}', are the questions c serious moment which are giving rt sponsible people in the Dominion th gravest anxiety." The numerous and, in. some case;; excessive demands made upon th primary producers from the tim their raw products left the farm u.: til they returned from world mai kcts in the shape of manufacture goods, was the secret of the troubk said Mr Harbutt.'" The necessity ft farmers protecting themselves fro? this unequal distribution and addc charges, was the reason of the cha man "Is suggestion that passive resis ance to taxation demands was U only remedy left for the farmers > employ. Mr Harbutt added that in makir such a statement, he was guided I experience and public opinion. I another conference he had attend? recently, the discussion on rem! bearing on similar subjects was s most unanimously in favour of dire net ion to remedy in some way tl primary producers' present po-it,r and their fears of the future. "Whatever suggestions I ha 1 made,'' concluded Mr <£ m; b<< tak<m i n eopiniiet->-]>h b the Minister of Marketing- told- 1' Federation of Labour last ,L n t* and.rei)c:itfd a I the Dairy IV-»n"d liial, 'ill politic' 1 'or labour. • I haw always ! more, and now I have to ask the r.ot to ask for more."