VICTORY THROUGH PRODUCTION

Taranaki Daily News, 30 September 1940, Page 11 (Supplement)

VICTORY THROUGH PRODUCTION

I I S responsibility I i 1 always great, has been infinitely increased by jj I 3 the declaration of war I jj once a vital part of the deJ ■ jj important as any of the oi | jj vices. It is with this idea I } that farmers will carry out 1 5 ing the coming months. A I i in the fields and factories o: I 5 as any which may be foug]

jj I I jj gladly and with all the energy they possess. ;| 1 ... their part with the same j; | e. that the Dominion ex- «! I Preliminary instructions ;! Ij id. It remains for every j; I . Inevitably there will be jj I and orders given with jj I ut the work will proceed. j; I

|| A YEAR OF WAR I Looking back over the past I year, the most importar.!: fac- | tor, apart from the military I situation, that has emerged I from the war has been the I country's realisation of the I part that farming has played,% I and still must play, in the I national crisis. I Right from the outbreak of | hostilities, universal attention I became focussed upon prim- | ary production. An urgent I call for a great effort did not I pass unheeded and, though I conditions in New Zealand Ij were far from easy after | years of depression, farmers || responded magnificently, glad | of the opportunity to display | their mettle. | The only regret apparent in | Taranaki has been that the | occasion of so much concen- | trated interest in agriculture, | and so much activity in pro- | duction, should have been |j brought about by the emerg- | ency of a terrible war. Farm-. | ers have been set a great and | an obvious task. That task ■ will be carried out.

WHAT OF THE FUTURE? / II For farmers of New || Zealand the demand upon in- || creased supplies of foodstuffs || has gradually unfolded a || situation long apparent to '/ || thoughtful . land-owners, but / || which the Dominion as a ||: whole is just beginning to H realise. || Out-of-date, inefficient and || wasteful methods can no / || longer be tolerated. Farm ' , || practices and field methods ■ || have been made subversive to ||: planned production. What |K most farmers feel in their . 1 || hearts is good farming has || been brought about ■ by the || desperate needs of the mom- || ent, but with an objective || established, men on the land || can now look forward to a || rightful place in the nation's || economic structure. || With new means to their - || hands, new knowledge of dis- || ease and pest control, of feed- || ing and fertilisers, with || better seeds and improved || machines, there is no reagon • || why farmers of Taranaki || should not build a sounder || and healthier system out of |B the deplored necessity of total || warfare. || Jplff II-