FARMERS' POSITION
SERIOUSNESS STRESSED
(By Telegraph.—Press Association).
DUNEDIN; Thig bay. At a meeting of the Otago Provincial Council of the New Zealand Farmers' Union yesterday tho following motion was carried:—"That the Dominion president be asked to organise without delay a mass demonstration consisting of one member of each branch of the Farmers' Union to wait on the Government to stress the serious position of tho farming community and the urgent need of getting down costs." Mr. J. D. Bevie, of Crookston, painted the prospects of the dairy farmer in very sombre colours. He referred to the very great importance of the dairy industry, and said that butter had saved the country in the slump of 1920----21-22. To-day the butter market was in jeopardy, and prices had to fall only a little further and the dairy farmer would be feeding his milk and cream to calves /and pigs, as it would be cheaper to do that than send them to the factory. Mr. Lee, Goodwood, remarked that the position must be considered to be much worse in Canada, fos Mr W Goodfellow had told them on his return from Ottawa tl.at dairy farmers In that Dominion had been getting only s^d for their butter-fat. ' ■ • -
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Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 125, 23 November 1932, Page 8
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203FARMERS' POSITION Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 125, 23 November 1932, Page 8
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