WHEAT INDUSTRY.
POSSIBLE FIVE-YEAR PLAN. FARMERS’ DIFFICULTIES. Per Press Association. W AIM ATE, Aug. 19. After speaking to very many hundreds of wheat-growers and their wives during a tour of Canterbury, the Minister of ‘lndustries and Commerce (Hon. D. G. Sullivan), addressing a large meeting at Waimate, said he was impressed with the social problem affecting the countryside and promised sympathetic consideration to the domestic difficulties of farmers’ wives. The Government would have to consider the provision of facilities to make country life attractive and stop the drift of population to (lie cities, and this involved housing of farm workers.
“I met growers individually and as groups and at very largo meetings throughout Canterbury and found them modest in the presentation of their case. Rationally and reasonably they presented their difficulties and a request for a reasonable price to enable a reasonable standard of living for their families, to which they arc as much entitled as any other section of the community.” He paid a tribute lo growers’ efforts to meet his appeal for increasing acreage. Despite the controversy over price fixation last time and the difficulties of their conditions, they had attempted to meet his reqeust in this national matter. Mr Sullivan promised sympathetic consideration to tho wheat-growers’ request and suggested the possibility of a five-year development plan for the whole wheat industry.
The Minister and Mrs Sullivan proceeded to Oamaru to-day further to investigate conditions in wheat areas.
An estimate of the dressed weight of the top-priced bullock at the National stock market at Addington a fortnight ago was given in tho report of the sale at 19001 b. ’Plie bullock actually dressed 19061 b. There have been very few heavier bullocks sold at Addington, and certainly none of this weight, of better quality. The bullock, a Shorthorn, was fattened by Mr A. Reid, of Outram (Taiori) .and sold at £56.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 223, 20 August 1937, Page 5
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313WHEAT INDUSTRY. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 223, 20 August 1937, Page 5
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