FARMER VERSUS FIGHTER

New Zealand Times, Volume XLII, Issue 9795, 19 October 1917, Page 3

FARMER VERSUS FIGHTER

To the Editor, “N.Z. Times.” Sir, —The Second Division League ought to know better. Their ages range from 19 years upward. They are old enough to know better. To think that those men of mature ago should deliberately harass the two heads of the National Government for more sustenance for their wives (and possible widows). Look at the farmers. Hero they are actually asking for more money, and quite resigned to let tho purchaser leavo the bartering to “our directors.” Fighters, '‘remember Gallipoli.” Farmers, remember tho British Navy, f?ho will have to fight and die so that your butter will fetch you I6|d per pound. It is up to the butter men to harass the National Government, to buttonhole and to “lobbyiso” their members, so that they, at any rate, shall not suffer financially through the world war. But tho men who are asked to give up their business, their livelihood, and in many cases their lives, are, according to Wednesday’s “Times,” a curse and a plague to politicians and their leaders. Cutter directors, stick out hard; dairymen, he determined; ‘now' is your chance. Tho neutral butter supplying countries are nearly done, starvation stares Europe in the face. ' England is training one million more men for the British Navy to help to carry your produce. Stand firm, butter'directors. “Remember Messines.” What the. First Division have started the Second Division will, with God’s help, carry on. Use every effort you can to prevent the menace of the Second Division League being successful. Keep up the price, the price (with a big P). Sixteen pence live-eighths is a scandal to have to accept in war time. The arms and fathers of the nearby township #ill fight your battles in France, so barrack hard for nineteen pence. The lobby is clear, tho leaguitos are bundled out of tho Ministerial offices. Barrack and fight for nineteen pence. —I am.', etc., SWEET THIRTY-SIX.