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M.P. ‘lucky’ to get meat

Without supplementary minimum prices, Mrs Ann Hercus, the member of Parliament for Lyttelton, might be lucky to get any meat at all, according to the North Canterbury provincial president of Federated Farmers, Mr Arthur Mulholland. Mr Mulholland told a meeting of the provincial executive that “a certain Labour M.P. in this city claims she is paying for her meat twice." “Let me reassure her that without S.M.P.s she may be lucky to get any meat at all,” he said. "Farmers are certainly not getting rich on supported meat and wool prices. With an 80 per cent increase in oroduction costs over the ast three years, our returns

n real terms are becoming iangerously low. “While we have a system of pay increases which insulate people from inflation, we will have a nation which pays lip-service only to combating that same inflation. “This leaves those who produce in a true market environment as price takers in an impossible situation. "Any thinking person must realise that by subsidising agriculture beyond market realisation, for an extended period, can only lead to. disaster,” Mr Mulholland said. “Time is running out I make a plea to the Government to come to grips with the economic ills of this country, before the goose which lays the golden egg is finally killed.”

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Press, 2 March 1982, Page 25

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M.P. ‘lucky’ to get meat Press, 2 March 1982, Page 25

M.P. ‘lucky’ to get meat Press, 2 March 1982, Page 25

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