TOO MUCH WASTE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 416, 28 December 1932, Page 2

TOO MUCH WASTE

POVERTY BAY FARMERS SAY FAR TOO MANY BOARDS. Too many boards, commissions and meetings with the idea of helping the primary producer in his present problems are^eating up money without doing apy substantial good. At least, j statements to this effect were made at Saturday's meeting of the Poverty Bay sub-provincial executive of the Farmers' Union, when it was suggested that less! money would be wasted if farmers were made direct advances ' to heip them in. their present difficult- • ies. The Dominion secretary of th'e Farmets' Union advised that a meeting to consider primary, producers' problems was to held in Wellington on January 17 and was to be addressed by Sir William D. Hunt, Messrs W. J. Polson, M.P., D. Jones, M.P., D. Fulton, J. Begg and W. Machin. Recommendations for the reiief of the farmers were to he forwarded to the Government. Mr. W. Turnbull drew attention to the multitude of boards, commissions and meetings set up recently, and the large amount of money spent on trying to solve to-day's probiems, and yet they had got nowhere. He believed 'that if the Government would advance money to 40,000 farmers who could be trusted to use the money judiciously it would he cheaper than the present system. He said he knew that .some farmers could not be trusted to handle money to the best advantage, hut many could, and such a scheme would be of greater advantage than the present methods. The president remarked that if such a scheme could be worked, it should be more .satisfactory than the present wasfce or>| dole labour. No resolution was passed.