NOT GETTING FAIR SHARE

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20023, 23 August 1939, Page 12

NOT GETTING FAIR SHARE

DOMINION PRODUCERS MR. BURNETT’S CHARGE (Parliamentary Reporter.) WELLINGTON, this day. Quoting with approval the declaration of the Minister of Agriculture, the Hon. W. Lee Martin, that he was desperately keen to see a -good producing season in view of our reliance on the producer to meet the overseas commitments, Mr. T. D. Burned (Nat., Temuka) remarked in the House of Representatives yesterday that New Zealand had paid its way through its exports ot primary products; in effect, the primary producer was actually the man in the front-line trenches, while the rest of the industrial and other workers could be put down as engaged on tlie lines of communication, but the front-line people were growling because they were 'not getting their fair share.

One might say that the guaranteed prices met the situation for the dairy farmer, but this was not the case because the scheme wag out of balance owing to its failure to make provision for the increasing costs of production. "There is growing discontent in the front-line trenches, because they hold that the men behind, protected by industrial awards and comfortable conditions of the public works jobs are taking too much out of the general pool, in distinction to the falling results to the producing exporter,” said Mr. Burnett.