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Hokitika Guardian, 18 August 1927, Page 2

HELPING THE FARMER. MR LLOYD GEORGE FAVOURS STATE CREDIT. Mr Lloyd George, addressing Liberal meeting at Aberdeen last Junealluded to tlie agricultural situation and asked, “What are the Conservatives doing'” “Nothing,” said the Liberal leader, replying to bis own question and added: “ A Conservative farmer said at a recent conference, ‘They are just like a fussy housewife, dusting, dusting, but never cooking a dinner, while at the same time everybody is getting hungrier and hungrier.’ “ Agriculture is passing through a had time. It is a fatal error to imagine that the cultivation of our soil is a question merely for the countryside and that it does not concern the towns. “ An effective and good use of the soil is an essential to national prosperity, to national' wealth, and to national security. “ The question of an effective use of the soil ought to be in this country what it became in the nineteenth century in Germany, in Denmark, and in Belgium, and. to a certain extent, in France—a national question.” Mr Lloyd George argued in favour of the bold use of State credit for tlie purpose of reviving agriculture. British credit bad been used to finance agriculture in Canada, in the Argentine, and in other parts of the world. Why not. he asked, use it also for the benefit of our own little land ?

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