Farmers' Milk Protest Print E-mail
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Union Blamed For Low Prices.
 

Farmers in Cumbleralnd and Westmorland are discontented with the winter milk prices. At the request of Agriculturists in the district, Mr. N. HODGSON, of Newbiggin, called a meeting at the Penrith Auction Mart.
 
 
“Can anyone tell me,” he asked, “how the farming community can produce milk at 8 ½ d a gallon for 6 months.”
 
 
He complained that people who were supposed to look after farmer’s interests seemed to have been asleep.
 
 
Mr. WOOD, organiser of the Farmers’ Union, agreed that the current prices were deplorable. He defended the Farmers’ Union against its critics, pointing out that last spring, when the Union tried to collect information from the farmers which might be of use, the response even from farmers concerned was almost negligible.
 
 
FARMERS TO BLAME.
 
“The farmers themselves are to blame,” declared Mr. WOOD. “It is not the Farmers’ Union who slept in.”
 
 
Mr. E. HOLLIDAY stated that he and three other farmers at the meeting had never been at all on the matter.
 
 
Mr. WOOD: If you had been would you have given the information?
 
 
Mr. HOLLIDAY: Yes, but we have never been asked.
 
 
Another farmer asked if Cumberland had any representations on the Milk Committee of  the Farmers’ Union.
 
 
It was stated in reply that they had not directly, but attempts were being made to obtain it.
 
 
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