HIGH PRICES AND SPECULATION.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3592, 2 October 1920, Page 5

HIGH PRICES AND SPECULATION.

A writer in the Otago Daily Times states: With the auvent of, higher prices for all farmers - ' produce, land also started to. advance in. price, and farmers, also dairy farmers in hundreds, sold out their farms at the advanced ra'. es ruling, some of them to retire, others to look round a while and see how things were going. These men saw that prices were still advancing,: and bought other and' larger farms to have a finger still in the pie. Now where did all this money that changed hands during this land boom come from or will have to come from I should suggest from the unhappy consumer. There is also another small but rather significant matter, which, to my mind,' points to the farming community as having had a very good time of late years. Pick up any newspaper you like and look through the estate agents' advertisements, and what mee'ts y-our eye? Something like this: "A v<sry substantial brick bungalow, so and so, so and so, ideal situation, motor garage, three acres land, suit retired fanner." You never see in any advertisement "suit retired tailor, tinker, or buTFer consumers." And if it were possible to 'rake a census of the residents of some of our suburban areas, I have no hesitation in saying that the largest number by far of any particular trade or of the retired residents would be farmers and dairy farmers." IN WIRELESS RAN<JE. The following vessels are in wireless range to-day:— '' With Wellington: Maori, Wahine, Navua, Mineric, Matatua, Waimana, Tairoa, Liberty, Paloona, Veronica, Kanna, and Marama."' With Chatham Islands: Westmeath and Donald Mackay. On Sunday.—With Wellington: Maori, Wahine, Marama, Kaikoura, Moeraki, Carpentaria, Port Alma, Port Sydney, and Northumberland. With Chathanis: Westmeath and Donald Mackay. With Awarua: Westralia. "Hasten now co make assurance doubly sure." Wise words at this season, when winter's dire complaints threaten from every point. An emphatic assurance of immunity from lung complaints, chest troubles, coughs, colds, and influenza—a sure, safe remedy at all times. It has a rich, pleasant taste, and its soothing action never fails to stop the tickle and give ease to* the sore throat. A wise plan is to keep a (bottle always handy. Large size 2/6—at all chemists.