AUSTRALIAN FARMERS
Subsidy To Dairymen (Rec. 7 p.m.) CANBERRA, October 11. Australian dairymen have criticized the £2,000,000 annual subsidy provided in the Dairying Assistance Bill which has been passed without amendment by both Houses of Parliament, despite Opposition criticism. At a special meeting .in New South Wales speakers described the subsidy as “charity” and a “dole.” The meeting asked for an increase of 6d per lb for butter to producers to give them an “Australian standard of living.” In the Senate the Minister of Customs, Senator R. V. Keane, said the subsidy might mean an increase of 10/a week to dairy farmers. It would give the producers ljd per lb more for butter. Up to the present the return to butter producers had been about 1/lAd per lb. There were 64,000 dairy farmers in Australia, so the subsidy meant an average additional payment to farmers of about £3O a year.
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Southland Times, Issue 24872, 12 October 1942, Page 5
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150AUSTRALIAN FARMERS Southland Times, Issue 24872, 12 October 1942, Page 5
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