IN REAL TROUBLE—THE BRITISH FARMER.

Hokitika Guardian, 15 September 1927, Page 3

IN REAL TROUBLE—THE BRITISH FARMER.

The farmer’s troubles are real. Many who have contrived to escape loss (luring the past five years are finding their difficulties too great for them. They are being squeezed into insolvency between high costs and low returns. In agriculture it is always easier to diagnose than to prescribe. Farmers ih°;r.selves are not able to agree on the rem edy. The National Farmers’ Univi missed a singular opportunity some years ago for taking a hand in policy. It represents a diversity of farming interests and speaks for them all only in sour commentaries on Afinisterial’ policy or the lack of it. The agricultu-al rank-and-file is unimpressed by the relief in small packets which it has received. It finds the achievement small so far, the policy chilling and its own plight alarming. But what has turned resignation into wrath is that Alinistets have invited it to share their own complacency over this conjunction of fa :ts. The Government will have to prove its good faith and sympathy in competent action if it is to recover the conti lince of its rural supporters and its standing in the country constituencies. — ’ ll*o Observer.”