MILITARY RESERVE
ENROLMENTS TOTAL 15,502 NAPIER HEADS LIST (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. Enrolments in the National Military Reserve total 15,502, of which just under 13.000 are eligible. Napier military area still has the highest number, of enrolments, with Christchurch close behind. are located. . Under this scheme the farmer and the Government would each pay half: of the fee, the farmer then to keep the progeny until three years old, when the army remount officer would inspect these young horses. When passed, the Government to pay the farmer say £3O for each accepted. Any not considered suitable to be given back to the farmer. We would then have a uniform class, eminently fitted for their job. Having been connected with this sort of scheme, 1 feel sure it would turn out a great success and the right type of horse would be bred. F. VALENTINE.
Guaranteed Prices
Sir,—Surely Mr. W. W. Mulhoiland, president of the Farmers’ Union, is at this juncture a sorry figure. He look advantage ol' his position, as did his predecessor, Mr. W. J. Poison, M.P., to become violently political—violently opposed to the Labour Government. He .took lor granted that the sheep farmers would rally round him. as assuredly they would, but he was not sure of the dairy larmers —the working farmers who helped to place the Labour Government in power in 1935. Without consulting the latter he condemned the guaranteed price for dairy produce, hoping thereby to wean them from their loyalty to the party that helped them and forgetful of the fact that at a conference held in New Plymouth last year the dairy farmers unanimously had decided on the retention of the guaranteed price system. In his political zeal he misjudged the dairy farmers and the educated and intelligent people of New Zealand. Quite unconsciously, Mr. Mulhoiland is doing a great service ti) the Labour Government. In his presidential address at the farmers' conference held recently in Wellington, lie expressed tear of the ultra-conservative element in the National Party and Mr. Mulhoiland does not know where he is. R. T. KOHERE. I
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20001, 28 July 1939, Page 14
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350MILITARY RESERVE Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20001, 28 July 1939, Page 14
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