tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post944195784277307917..comments2024-03-29T17:12:19.648+13:00Comments on Bowalley Road: A Small History Lesson For Federated FarmersChris Trotterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09081613281183460899noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-3815458528014875752011-01-22T17:51:26.412+13:002011-01-22T17:51:26.412+13:00Adolf, was your parent a farmer? I remember the fa...Adolf, was your parent a farmer? I remember the farmers doing pretty well throughout the 60s regardless of whatever action the unions were taking. Some people just don't do well in business regardless. Perhaps your parent was one of these.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-33506710325281570762011-01-20T20:22:31.100+13:002011-01-20T20:22:31.100+13:00Adolf, how do you link urbanites wth unions? It se...Adolf, how do you link urbanites wth unions? It seems you take actions by one group of people and attach them to others. Weak. A lack of comprehensive understanding. Exactly the problem Mr Trotter outlined. <br /><br />And anyway, it may well have been your family who suffered at the hands of unions wanting more money but today it is my family who suffers from a lack of high quality food (milk) due to farmers wanting more money and selling their food to only the rich of the world while not caring one dot for the people in this country who can't afford milk. Gross.<br /><br />Still the entire matter goes over your heads...<br /><br />vto.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-78223450997107469622011-01-20T17:17:43.238+13:002011-01-20T17:17:43.238+13:00I was given a xmass presi,Kiwi Keith.Barry Gustafs...I was given a xmass presi,Kiwi Keith.Barry Gustafson!s homage to Sir Keith Holyoake.I accepted not to be churlish with the intent of fueling the barbie later on in the week,however i gave it a read,due to my long past years spent in the Wairarapa.<br /><br />It should have been titled Maori Keith,for at his time of tenure he owned more Maori land than the Maori.However,since his time our economy has become more diverse, although diverse still dependant on our agriculture base,as Barry and Keith kept alluding to,farmers are the backbone of our country,and as diverse as we now are, our present government and future governments either left or right will always favour the fence leaning mind.aberfoylehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11484495252081507064noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-26537566530259222642011-01-20T16:06:45.014+13:002011-01-20T16:06:45.014+13:00Mr Trotter, the dead set giveaway is this bit:-
&...Mr Trotter, the dead set giveaway is this bit:-<br /><br />"The Nathan family’s obvious entrepreneurial talents cannot be separated from the fact that the industry they helped to establish, like so many of our industries, was based on imported capital, imported patents and imported technology transforming local raw materials into repatriated profits. "<br /><br />Back then the only local capital was a few flax sticks and some indigenes running around bumping each other off for kai. Some of the latter married imported Pommy North Country white trash to produce your typical shop steward of the 1900s.<br /><br />And you might do well to do some research on the reasons for the long standing antipathy between hard working farmers and bludging urbanites which carries through to the present day. It was your mates in their unions who sent my parent broke in the 60s by going on strike year after year after year at the peak of the lamb and cull ewe kills.<br /><br />Your history is seen through extremely pink hued glasses.Adolf Fiinkenseinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08045358863278087055noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-17425183772010002172011-01-20T08:20:41.544+13:002011-01-20T08:20:41.544+13:00Don Nicolson wrote a piece in The Press last year ...Don Nicolson wrote a piece in The Press last year where he labelled farmers as the real New Zealanders. It was evidence of a man with a shallow understanding of much in the world. <br /><br />Since that time I have harangued him and challenged him over these views. However, all I get back is pithy one-liners and refusal to answer the issues. You have clearly picked up n the same characteristic. The man is a lightweight with a heavyweight position unfortunately.<br /><br />His writing is reflective of the farming sector in general however. It is a sector under seige, mostly for the environmental destruction it has wrought on NZ (how many rivers are swimmable and drinkable in the Waikato? Are the farmers cleaning it up yet? or the ratepayers and taxpayers?).<br /><br />The farmers reactions to this turning of their standing in the eyes of NZers is to kick and scream like children. They are failing to cope with having to answer for their actions and stop shitting on other people (literally).<br /><br />Don Nicolson exemplifies this. He will be a short-lived man of the moment. And a forgotten one, except perhaps as an example of how dinosaurs thrash around when the world changes around them.<br /><br />vto.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-39059695772501087032011-01-19T20:24:36.204+13:002011-01-19T20:24:36.204+13:00I was yarning with a friend just a day or two ago ...I was yarning with a friend just a day or two ago about the farming community. In the course of a 25yr career in pest management he's had cause to deal with almost every farmer in the district. In his view he's met many fine and decent folk along the way, but equally he tells a fine tale or two about the many arrogant sob's he's also had to deal with. <br /><br />He reckons that the prevalance of these squatocracy arses is most apparent among the third generation descendants of those who had cleared the land and created the farms... descendants who've had wealth and status bestowed on them by accident of birth, not by dint of actual hard work.RedLogixnoreply@blogger.com