BRITISH FARMING POLICY
RECENT CABINET CHANGES. Acting presumably, and with great shrewdness, on the theory that the best poacher makes the best gamekeeper—for the National Farmers’ Union has been prominent in its criticism of the Ministry—Mr Chamberlain has selected a former president of that organisation to preside in future over the national farming policy, states “The Times” in its comment on recent British Cabinet changes.-Sir Reginald Dor-man-Smith therefore will now be in the strong position of being able to negotiate agricultural reforms with himself. "As ex-president and delegate of the National Farmers’ Union,” we may yet hear him saying the best “Mikado” manner, “I suggest—nay, I insist —that the Government should guarantee simultaneously more profits for the farmers, better wages for the workers, and cheaper food for the masses. As president of the Board of Agriculture, however I conceive it to be my duty, first to express my heartfelt sympathy with myself over the unhappy condition in which I find myself, and then to meet my own proposals with an uncompromising negative.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 March 1939, Page 2
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172BRITISH FARMING POLICY Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 March 1939, Page 2
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