FARMERS AND THE WAR

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3019, 5 March 1917, Page 8

FARMERS AND THE WAR

POSITION IN SOUTH CANTERBDEYa By Telegraph.—Press 'Association. Timaru, March 4. Mr. Frostfolr, na a member of the Industrial Efficiency Board, addressed a meeting of farmers here yesterday, /■and a general discussion followed. I Mr. Talbot, chairman of tho Farmers' TJnion of tho district, dwelt upon '.the difficulty caused by the calling up liof ploughmen. Ho said teams wore ,:dlo all over the district, atid reliablo, men were not obtainable. Consequently there, must bo a great shortage of •wheat next season, Mr. J. Anstey,_ M.P., pointed out l tho.discrepancies in mating up quotas, so that the Canterbury and North Ota go farming districts had been called 'on for a larger proportion of men than •the cities. , Several other speakers agreed, and iendorsed Mr. Talbot's romarks. A practical suggestion ivas made by 'Mr., Burbury, : who accompanies Mr. Frostick, and was that a farmer unable" to -follow a team himself could .teach another man .how to manage one. Tile question of financing farms for 'absent soldiers was also discussed. It was said that firms did not finance farms, but hard-working farmers, who did not' mind how 1 long they worked. The position would be very different rwith hired labour under a supervisor, , and the Government should provide the finance. Mr. Frostick said it was the equity in a farm that, would secure the financing of the farm. If there was 110 equity the owner should dispose of the farm before leaving. The result of tho conference was a resolution to ask the County and Eoad Board ohairmen to call meetings to nominate committees of supervision.

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