THE FARMER.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20107, 10 December 1930, Page 17

THE FARMER.

I„ S dito3 or the raw*. ! ° T genuine farm labourer. I *.- A, ,. a 1 give £5 to the unD yo t Uorfn ; ul ) to l ,e -iW 4 tf'nd the farmers' meeting but, of coursf. being barred. 1" the first •rf 10J " C .\ lam quite safe in sayK nbicct of calling the >»ee - the farm worker', i' "-« as a worker, I quue agree ;tf^;- i ,a 1 er %r ,- !P Lme« Who have been wcrk- *<° So fa"" for, say, from •> thC th?to 10 vears, not casuals ilve »•»*" [, iey get a cheque mg ■i« sta J' „ ilpbaueh. W* Permission I will put a few 'fiV onr Srd as to how costs or w , B be lowered without eutietioa a C kerosene first. W th>swages- / a ks while working i'^ -nilin road, I had five > wet "t, call on me. In ore ear 'l*"' fr, fewer than three salcsiore ««». D ° 0 others, and two solo. *'Untold In conversation with ' !e T'he e gentlemen, who prclrnvJ #t li ale, which was very no- , bottle «J" ' drilling turnips and stable, « * *? mc a h 0 formed me his >,V« OaWtaudall exJ * ,y ' Mudin- petrol and oil (and, ''^lrmM■'ringing up for his kerot"e nrm whose oil he sae! ne it out some of these travelsJC°f in ck 2s 6d a case off the * tt £? he same thing with sheep '? e i"sacks, etc. Who rays the "'' " •„ fhp long run ? tn implements. How is * . druoer or grocer can go to ■ !,a ! a oß local makers and buy a 3? iav for many pounds less than ;*,t'J-can? Take boots and clothes. 'S a f"end in business in J&Vew snve as much a« l ; >s %of working boots and up to l«fflt. on pants and shirts. Tcoilon, Mr Editor, let the ,£«,> Union be made open for any Lrltpr to ioin, and form an Agri*fl sociation of all producers ;;, for concessions, the same as the WomobUe Association, Commercial '•ivcllMS' Association, etc., and treat 'heemployees as men with some brains. I ißtliei to. the local secretary of the Firman' Union to join the excursion „ the Coast a few years ago, but was refused,"Sß it was for farmers only; tutl-totiteft a carpenter's name among tie passengers, and on the trip to Australia there was a well-known business man. Why the different treatment? I i»pe to be a farmer some day.—Yours, ? ' e " FIVE YEAJ'.S. December 9th, 1930.

TO ttt ISttOi OT THE TT.T.SI Sir—Many iatmers bought their land oil vaitttss governed by price of the po\«id sterling based on depreciated gold. As gold has appreciated, the actual vaiud oi til stocks and investment* 1m saSend a very great decimo ifl ralae, many to half of their ' ofd ra/ne-,;ir/iffe others have "blown sit" atogiitßcf. Tia jaejtion is, Why should thestgagee oi land ait entrenched l>oaJ flic interest due to him and ,ict it thai he must reduce costs as well i tee other fellow ? As gold has iptiatsd,- lie wants to hold on to b security at double its value, when is took it up. It is up to the MtJagM to come down to the true nine, just as much as the worker or ffiwelie, and accept about half the rat of interest ho has been rerarat—Tours, etc., J. WELD, tenter 9th, 1930. ) 10 TB2 EDITOR OF THE PBE33. Sif,-In dealing with tho above may I saie the suggestion that if we admit :Sti gold hoarding by America and is the root of our troubles in lit Empire, then a system of trading lj tilth we could largely obviate the iSaity for the use of gold seems to tie natural counter? Why should a ;JSTstem of Empire currency be conned! Also, why not frame an ifttgement open for any country or Hlioa to fnt e r into, by which their ™ telations would be automatically %Jt(d BOmewhat on the basis of the ''HUMoned barter, balances being Wled by goods instead of gold. This , 'oald further largely dispense with the jlKeisity for the international measurrtiek, ag Sir Otto Niemeycr calls so a largo part of the gold in vaults could go to those coun®®»hieh jcem so intensely to desire .* pmesa.it. The psychological efthis attitude would soon be Ws the direction that the gold flow *** take when it was realised that other nations simply did not want «11 tiii would taKe time, however. J® 8 1# New Zealand a way must be and found quickly, if it is to J®'} Catastrophe. It seems thai j - "® ® none other than for the Gov"®M»t to declare a state of national agency, and appeal to the country pounds of extreme urgency to make Meept an all-round reduction —tcmJ/™?!, anyway—of, say, 20 per cent .salaries, wages, rent 3, prices, fixed and rates of all kinds —exclud,;S Perhaps, interest rates. Also, '-t remove anomalies of taxation 6 primary producer, and enhim in every way possible to *t« and keep going. its the primary producer on his legs, va ' ues » the cost of living jtu ,f a P'fy fall, unemployment gradusSkv^P ear > confidence be rc22®*?. This would result in being attracted here from Brij giy for safe investments, and JungAustralia. Interest rate* 'te at about 4J per cent, to the wheels of development. 'would turn again, and .»,? aon only remain as a bad dream r.tte p aß t._Y ourS! clc-) k, v PRODUCER,