SUBSIDIES AND WAGES.
ABBIBTANCE TO FARMERS. GOVERNMENT'S PROPOSALS. OPPOSITION’S CONTENTIONS. (Times Air Mail Service.) LONDON, June 20. Mr W. S. Morrison, the Minister of Agriculture, will unfold an agricultural policy to the House of Commons under which subsidies amounting to £40.000,000 a year are being paid to the farming industry. They include subsidies for wheat, meat, milk, barley, fertilisers and sugar, as well as a £15,000,000-a-year subsidy to landowners in the form of exemption from rates. He will promise still more subsidies as soon as he can get details of them worked out. 'But he Is going to be challenged by the Opposition not. to grant any more doles from the taxpayers’ money until something has been done to see tTiat the farm labourers get their share of them. At present, in many counties, the farm workers are getting only 30s a week. In the best-paid counties the figure is only 365, while the average for the whole country Is round about 33s 6d. Mr Morrison will be told that until the workers" wages have been raised to at least £2 a week, there ought to be no more doles for the landowners and farmers.
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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20254, 24 July 1937, Page 11
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195SUBSIDIES AND WAGES. Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20254, 24 July 1937, Page 11
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