The Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, DECEMB. 11, l916. FARMING INDUSTRY.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1650, 14 December 1916, Page 2

The Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, DECEMB. 11, 1916. FARMING INDUSTRY.

SPEAKING at the annual mediae' of the New Zealand Danners’ Cooperating' Distributing Co. at Wellington on Tuesday, Sir .lames G. Wilson (chairman of directors) said there was no dim lit that prices for our produce laid never been so high as they were at the present moment. The expenses, of course, were very heavy also. Me thought they might say that the farmers were doing fairly wed. It was very necessary that the farmer should do wed. If it were not for the farmer In* did not know where New Zealand would be*. Out of £113,000,000 of expoi-ts considerably more than £25,000,000 came directly from the land, lie then alluded to the commandeering of Dominion produce* by the Imperial Government. A good price had been obi aim'd for our wool. The position in regard to the butter question was not so satisfactory. A conference was to lie held at Christchurch next day to consider the wheat question. There was no doubt that the wheal farmer had been growing wheat at a loss during the past twenty years. It was quite evident that there would be a deficiency in our wheal supply this vear.