GUARANTEED PRICE
AS HIGH AS GOVERNMENT THOUGHT WISE. STATEMENT BY MR B. ROBERTS. (“Times-Age” Special.) The policy of the Labour Government was to see that the farmers prospered by the production of their farms and not that they got rich by land gambling for which the general taxpayer would have to foot the bill, Mr B. Roberts, Labour candidate, told a Carterton audience last night when discussing guaranteed prices. The new price, he said, was not as high as the Advisory Committee had desired, but it was as high as the Government thought wise. Assuming that last season’s output would be maintained, the Minister anticipated that there would be a net deficiency in the fund at the end of this year of £935,000. The policy of the Government was to see that every section of the community shared in the prosperity of the country as accurately and as faithfully as it possibly could. The compensated price was only cheap propaganda and was only a slight variation of the guar- ~- anteed price. The National Party was only prejudiced against the guaranteed price because Labour had introduced it.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 October 1938, Page 6
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186GUARANTEED PRICE Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 October 1938, Page 6
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