FARMERS’ UNION AND UNEMPLOYED.

Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 19 June 1933, Page 4

FARMERS’ UNION AND UNEMPLOYED.

(To the Editor.) Sir, —Speaking at the Tokaora Farmers’ Union meeting on Friday mgm (16th), and reported in the “Hawera Star” on Saturday (17th), Mr. S. Thrush made reference to haring given the unemployed (I’ll correct him there, an unemployed man) trees to cut up and sell, and that the trees are still lying there. True the trees are still tying there. 1 have quite good reasons why they have not been cut up before this, but -suffice it to say I d have had them cut up this week had it -not been for Mr. Thrush’s untimely remarks, which apply the tag of charity to the offer. Air Thrush conveniently omitted to state the terms of the offered gift—that I split him two cord.-, and take the remainder, which to my mind virtually amounts to a sale, not a gift as Mr. Thrush would have it appear. An inference can also be drawn from his (Mr. Thrush’s) statement that I am lazy. Well, m Ins opinion I may be, but I can furnish sufficient testimony from in and around Ha wera to the contrary. The wood question appears to be the deciding factor in Mr. Thrush’s opposition to ;he bobbv calf scheme, but wliv the •est of the unemployed should suffer for my doings puzzles me. Air. Thrush also says it is a class tax. How it n j possible for supposedly intelligent perj sons ,to conceive such an idea, is past I comprehension. Again Mr. Thrusli j says the farmers are giving -enough, i out I would remind him that the unj employed from their slender earnings are contributing quite a tidy bit by j wav of sales tax (which to my way | of thinking virtually amounts to ohnr- | ity) to keep the farmers on the land. —I am. etc., R. DONALDSON.