“AN UNFAIR DEAL”

Taranaki Daily News, 18 October 1921, Page 8

“AN UNFAIR DEAL”

THE MARKETING OF PRODUCE. VIEWS OF A NEW ZEALANDER. “W'hat impressed me most during my travels,” remarked Mr. W. Stuart Wilson to a Dominion reporter on Sunday on his arrival home by the R.M.S. Marama, “was the very unfair det® that the New Zealand farmer is receiving in England.” “New Zealand produce,” said Mr. Wilson, “is being sold and not marketed. Every prominent New Zealander that I met in London assured me that reform would have to come from the New Zealand end, as it was impossible to scientifically market New., Zealand's goods without millions of pounds being available, in order to carry this out effectively. New Zealand produce is easily first amongst that grown in any part of the world. New Zealand butter is better than Danish butter. There is nothing to compare with the splendid honey produced in New Zealand, but it is farcical the way our honey —and butter, too, for that matter —is going into the blending stores for reconditioning very inferior products.

“If the New Zealand farmers only realised the very poor deal mat they are receiving at the hands of the millionaire merchants and others they would not rest till legislation was passed which would insist that every farmer and business man in New Zealand contributed to the funds of an agricultural bank; which should have a minimum capital of at least 25 millions sterling. It is my intention tq immediately petition Parliament in the matter, as it is the most vital matter affecting the Dominion at the present time.”