“SCRUB BULL MUST GO”

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 951, 19 April 1930, Page 25

“SCRUB BULL MUST GO”

HANDICAP TO PRODUCTION "The scrub bull must go,'* said tlie Cnder-Secretary for Scotland, Mr. Tom Johnston, In the course of a speech he made at Stirling recently, "he* he was the guest at a farmers’ luncheon, held by the National Farmers' Union of Scotland. Mr. Johnston said that sooner or later the nation would require to face toe fact that agriculture, at least in some of its phases, was undergoing serious handicaps and difficulties, and that it was the duty not only of the Industry itself, but of elected repre Np utatives of the nation, to see that tue primary producers had adequate remuneration for their labour and series. Reviewing what the Scottish Office uad done and wore doing in the invests of agriculture, he said they ere pushing the marketing of Home * ee f; if the Departmental Committee °u Agricultural Co-operation could them any feasible help in cooperative marketing, the Scottisn Office would do everything possible to assist. He could not promfse the date of “ e introduction of legislation, but he c ould say that the old “scrub’* bull go. Other countries had turned out, and Scotland and England •iso would have to turn him out.