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on boards who may have avested
interest in the application of
specific policy developments and
assist attempts to unite farmers
Instead of keeping them divided
along commodity lines.
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Brussels through the years has had many outstanding teams in a variety
of sports, Typical is the Brussels Football Team of 1950. Shown are (front)
(left) 0. Riley, S. Lowe, W. King, R. Jewell and S. Bowman (standing) C. Bryans,
M. Speirs, F. McCutcheon, J. Jewell, W. Stephenson and H. Pearson. This is
another in a series of pictures of former events being reproduced
during Centennial year.
Urges government to treat causes
Carol TenPas , 3 year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Al-
bert Ten Pas takes time out to blow a bubble while attending
A Brussels Post Classified Melville Presbyterian Church Bible School. Attendance was
will pay you dividends Have you record high with about 85 children attending for the week
tried one? Dial 887-6614, long program (other pictures on page 4 and 5)
8—THE BRUSSELS POST, AUGUST 2, 1972
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The National Farmers' Union
has urged the Ontario Govern-
ment to treat the causes, rather
then the symptoms and accept
its responsibility to farmers of
the troubled farm economy that
has sapped and weakened farm
communities.
This was the main thrust put
forward to the Provincial Cab-
inet last week in an NFU brief
which stated that, "while farm
productivity has continued to
increase, declining farm prices
and rising costs....are reflected
in a declining farm population."
In the period 1966 to 1971
the number o! census farmers in
Ontario declined by an average
of over 3,000 per year.
Walter Miller, NFU Vice
President, who made the pres-
entation was accompanied by
other union directors in Ontario,
Region 3.
Mr. Miller said that past and
present government formulae for
farmers have been far from sat-
isfactory. From the brief he
stated, "governments at both
provincial and federal levels
must accept responsibility for
A' the loss of realized net income to
farmers....a cheap food policy at
the farm level has been pursued
at both provincial and federal
levels.
He said the brief urged the
Provincial Government to rec-
ognize the weakness of provin-
cial marketing jurisdictions, and
the only effective alternative
being the transfer of marketing
authority to federal jurisdiction
for development of effective nat-
ional marketing plans.
However, he said, where ade-
quate national plans are not avail-
able the brief called for Pro-
vincia.1 Crown Marketing Agen-
9 Gies to replace present provin-
, cial marketing boards. "This
would remove the myth thatpres-
ent marketing boards perform a
bargaining function, and are pro-
ducer-controlled."
He said It would also "remove
the influence of persons presently
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