FARMERS' EFFORTS BEING HAMSTRUNG
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• - .. WELLINGTON, «ept. 11. , Speaking in the Budget debate in the jHouse- of Eepresentatives, Mr. E. B. K. 'Gordon (E'angitikei) said that wliile the .farniers -.had pledged themselves to do'-evbryfh^ng possible to tnaintain and ineresase'. ihe production of food for BfitaLn,, the Government, by_ its pi;ocrastination, 'was hamstringin^ the farmers ' Afi'ort.' Typical was the delay 'in announcing the new fertiliser prices. The Goveniment ought to have planned the -new , prices of fertilisers and „consequentiat amendments to produce prices ■ before announcing the with■jdrawal of thes ubsidies. The farmers shoqlcj not be left alone to carry the haby nor should they be the only see,tion of- the community of which a saen;fice and added ell'ort was asked. A Govei'hnient lead was uwaited witliout iavail.'-althougli it did now appear that some, .ieaders in the Labour movemeni realised that a mistake had been made ,ih introducing the 5-day, 40-hour week at a, time when New Zealand was so shor't of goods as she had been in recent years. There was an urgeut n.eed for speeding up coaatal shipping and other fonns of tr.ansport.
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Chronicle (Levin), 12 September 1947, Page 7
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