"ARBITRATION COURT A DRAG ON FARMER"

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 95, 13 July 1927, Page 8

"ARBITRATION COURT A DRAG ON FARMER"

MR. A. BELL’S VIEWS ATTACK SYSTEM (.THE SUN’S Parliamentary Renan WELLINGTON, “The time has come ww, , farmer will refuse to sit dow n ° Ue tolerate the system which threat..* I'* 1 '* drag him through the mud d - 6 ? s '* Mr. A. Bell. Bay of Islands ~*^ House of Representatives this ing in condemning the Arbit^! W ' Court When the court had ki!! established, he said, it was clai that it would do away with strikes'? 64 in this respect it had failed hopeles.sk 695 strikes or stoppages. involvm, loss of many millions of pounds w“ ! been experienced up to date. So „n!2 It be while the court existed un, 4 prices were soaring from IS9« to the pernicious effect of the court » not felt, but since 1921, when pric!* were falling, the primary producer h felt it severely. During the past 30 or 40 y ears ~ banks had taken undue toil of th people of this country, he continue/ and the time had come to take to prevent It. Not only had w amounts been sent forward to re serves, but year after year they h.H paid dividends up to 15 per cent Mr. W. E. Parry. Auckland On tral: What do you suggest? *■ Mr. Bell: The establishment of u agricultural bank, as recommended is