PRODUCERS’ PROBLEMS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 April 1939, Page 5

PRODUCERS’ PROBLEMS

OPERATION OF SYDNEY POLICY. OBSERVATIONS IN ENGLAND. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. (Received This Day. 11.20 a.m.) LONDON, April 4. Mr Cleveland Fyfe, general secretary of the National Farmers’ Union in a letter to the “Farmer and Stock Breeder” says: “It is to the Sydney policy that British and Dominions farmers must look for the restoration of remunerative price levels. Once the policy is fully operative conditions will be created under which farmers will be able to make farming pay.. In the meantime, price insurances must be maintained and extended, remaining as a safeguard for producers when the Sydney policy is operative. The principle of the Sydney policy has been applied by Government decision to beef, mutton and lamb and might shortly and in the same way be applied to processed milks. I trust the Dominions' producers- organisations will shortly be able to intimate their preparedness. to begin the establishment of commodity councils, wherever necessary. to carry out the purposes agreed on by the conference. The councils would provide an invaluable instrument for the solution of difficulties that the international situation raises.”