FARMING OPERATIONS
INFORMATION SOUGHT. GOVERNMENT PLAN CONDEMNED AUCKLAND, May 18. “It is absurd and ridiculous to send these things out,” said the president, Mr H. O. Mellsop, when displaying to delegates at the Auckland Farmers’ Union Conference today, a sheaf of papers asking for detailed information concerning farming operations. “The Government has sent these papers out to a number of dairyfarmers to get information that will be used, presumably, in determining a guaranteed price for next season,” said Mr Mellsop. “However, these forms are so complicated and require such a vast amount of information that I am doubtful’ whether the ordinary farmer will have the ability—-if he has the inclination —to fill them in. Perhaps the more prosperous farmers will employ accountants. In any case they will have little value in providing a cross-section of the degree of prosperity oi’ otherwise of the average farmer.” A delegate: These forms are being sent out only to brainy farmers? The president: Did you get one? Oh, yes. (Laughter.) The conference appointed a committee to investigate the matter.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 May 1938, Page 2
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