FARMERS' OBLIGATIONS.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20169, 23 February 1931, Page 16

FARMERS' OBLIGATIONS.

a*mcfetingk& / the ■ <Jaatetb«tyv * >■' § ! " ate^no* c and' ' and ?T«:?>'t- .'.V if-'*;;?fe&"J^ l ,.W!- - The fpeakfer r ing * for* f s = , he ■> as thai, i? '.pay t]iiree;guarters jdl^hfeufrj^tßli*!'V ■£ \ ■,Sir,vl have been aansd/h abler pan .than rniheto -■WMfYup*' > this>"'matter. Aa a farmer *>*>'' ! the Canterbury' total Association'! etrpngty^object to/ Mr Macfcariane*s ;- .tkat V the- farming* cpmraunityjjaM the? JErajk;! ? of the members of> Agricultural and Pastorali?AMociation. r The normal • Briton does not ; tear; up agreements.- As a budding*"politician, ■we were expecting -something helpful" from' Mr■ Macfarlane, and' aiofc the,.re-' > pudiatipn pf-jnst debts..„-V)- w -,, # .Mr Macfarfane*slm^ral ßeasoning surely peculiar, fanner should, only -recognise 'Sis' debts in proportipn to, the" revenue deceived for farm produce. How/about the good years?; Surely,after the m4ny, ysaw - high prices for ' has simething put by to aasiat' him-over' < a few years of lowi prices/ -If, he" has, > ! .hot, he must have paid a targe* sum; off ' his mortgage, -" or \ b,eeh;-,i extremely : extravagant. , - ; 'r' ' ' , 1 Does Mr Macfarlane mean that he is ■ t going -to' "fight for, 'ever' 1 and .ever?*" against the payment of just debt»"TY l the price of prodneo absurd to \ say that" mortgage -. deeds' 1 are, worthless,' '."Where . mortgages' can be adjusted, b well and goodj.Jbut? howH about'the people whose .life savings arei-' invested J in. mortgage deeds t J T6' re« pudiate these" mortgages is unthinkable, j The, 1 great need «o!f the farming »som-'. i inanity to-day of fighting fdip-ever, and,ever,why "not j ' ' japans "st? supplyinlgi.'th* wjtta , u tbo' J the*i^^«,^j;?w^g^|h^'jon"their'*, '>j ' Ha^en;'>flbru4^^K|^fe-i