FARMERS AND FERTILISERS

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 160, 1 August 1916, Page 3

FARMERS AND FERTILISERS

HOW TO REDUCE WAR PROFITS. ' WELLINGTON, Saturday | Mr Hindmarsh drew the Premier's attention to-day to a newpaper asserI tion that a high official of the Farmers' j Conference had declared that next year 1 he would spend more money on fertilisj rs and thus reduce his war profits. I Mr Massey, in reply, said speaking : as a farmer he thought it would be a j very good thing for the farming com- ! munity, and it would be a splendid j thing for the whole population if farm- ' ers spent more money in fertilisers i than they did at present. : Members: "Out .-of war profits," Mr Massey (amid laughter: I am speaking generally. The more money farmers spend on fertilisers, so long as good judgment is exercised, the higher will be their profits.

A complaint regarding the receipt of an anonymous letter from Dunedin in reference to the War Regulations Bill was made in the House by Mr Hornsby He said that the letter was unworthy of attention, but he asked whether the iiabit of sending anonymous letters to members could not be stopped. He suggested that the police should be instructed to take action in this ease. The Attorney General (the Hon A. i., Herdman) said that if the lion member \v:ould -hand him the letter he would examine it and ascertain whether a breach of the law had been committed. Of course the police could not act unless the law had been broken.