PEASANTS £1200 A YEAR.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3366, 19 December 1919, Page 5

PEASANTS £I2OO A YEAR.

The French newspapers are full of stories of the extrava.gantly= high prices being demanded in the 7Pr%or vinces for local produce, such as eggs and butter. A correspondent. quoted by the editor of l’Oeuvre- maintains that it is common thing to find peasants making £I2OO a year Who -live On their small farms and pay no income tax. The champions of the peasantry, on the other hand, maintain that they are being \neglected by the Government, which shows no hurry to »re~le>stablish in Ithe country districts the means of communication and trans. port suppressed during the war. M. Emanuel Btrousse, a deputy, alleges that the consignments of food stufis which the peasants send to market by train are systeniwtieally pillaged on the Way.