FARMERS' PROBLEMS
COMMISSION SUGGESTED TO INVESTIGATE SERIOUS POSITION. Representatives of farming interests in South Canterbury, including the Farmers' Union, Crown Tenants' Association, sheepowners, dairy farmers, the Returned Soldiers' Association and members of Parliament met in conference in Timaru last week and discussed the question of urging the Government to set up a primary industry reorganisation commission. The objective was stated to he: — (a) A complete and penetrative investigation into all matters connected with primary industries; (b) further drastic action to reduce cost of production; (c) to arrest the apparent deterioration and statistically confirmed depletion of the flocks and herds of the Dominion; (d) to raise considerably the standard of production and to increase the volume of exports; (e) the development of primary industries, and more especially those where expansion would provide greatly increased employment; (f) by inaugurating cooperatiye organisation and by statesmanlike legislation to eliminate the importation of all farm products which New Zealand farms, farmers, and other workers were capable of producing, the wh'eat, poultry, pig and flourmilling industries being emphasised.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 319, 5 September 1932, Page 7
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