FARMER AND CITY MAN
BETTER UNDERSTANDING URGED ADDRESS BY MR. GRIBBLE “Town and Country in their Relation to National Prosperity,” was the subject of an address by M.r. N. G. Gribble at the fortnightly luncheon of the Karangahape Road Business Society held in the Holly Tea Rooms yesterday afternoon. The speaker urged a better understanding between the farmer and the city business man who were interdependent. “I believe the farmer is the only man in the world whom we cannot do without,” said Mr. Gribble, in reminding his hearers of the part played by the agriculturist in the prosperity of the country. “He is producer, trader and investor, all three in one. Many people are two of the three, but very few are all.” Advocating the demolition of sectional barriers in the national life of New Zealand, Mr. Gribble said that 51 per cent, of the population lived in the towns and a strong bias was being formed in the children's minds against rural life. He held that the new generation should be taught where wealth came from and that farming is an attractive business with boundless scope for personal effort.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 125, 17 August 1927, Page 13
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