Former MP for Forfarshire
The object of this Bill is to reduce the cost of marketing agricultural produce by introducing a system of interference with the producers in the sale of their produce. We know that farmers have great difficulty in making ends meet at the present time, and that it is necessary that they should reduce the cost of marketing to the very utmost and to bring the producer nearer to the consumer....
I desire to support the Amendment. The Solicitor-General has failed entirely to grasp the difference between the English and the Scottish system. In Scotland the farmhouse and the workmen's cottages are part of the subject let to the tenant. When he offers for the farm he offers for the dwelling-house for himself and for the cottages for the farm workers. When the cultivation value has to be...
I have not yet raised my voice in Committee on this Bill, but I desire to raise a small Scottish voice to support this Amendment. The Bill, when it becomes an Act of Parliament, will create an enormous amount of worry and unrest for thousands of people throughout the country. They are going to be asked by the Bill to fix a value on their property under a very curious state of affairs. They...
I desire to support this Amendment. Agriculture is passing through most abnormal times, and the sufferings of the industry are more severe than ever before in its history. However, I do not base my arguments upon the condition of the industry, but upon the fact that petrol is one of the main raw materials of agriculture at the present time. Things have progressed very much in the last few...
The House of Commons is being asked to vote money for a very novel purpose, namely, to set up collectivist marketing organisations for agricultural produce. The foundation stone on which this proposal is based is compulsion, and I wish to ask the Secretary of State for Scotland and the Under-Secretary one important question on that subject. They have both instanced potatoes as a product which...
I want to say that in Scotland there is absolutely no desire for money to be spent upon large-scale national farming. My hon. and gallant Friend the Member for Tiverton (Lieut.-Colonel Acland-Troyte) has said that we in Scotland want to get as much money here as we can possibly obtain. Whether we have done that or not in the past I do not know, but certainly on this occasion we have no desire...
I desire to try to give expression to the agricultural view in Scotland of this Bill. In considering it, the main point to keep in mind is whether it will help the agricultural industry. In Scotland, the agricultural mind is opposed to the Bill. Those practical men, brought up in a hard school, consider that if any interference by Parliament is put upon them, if, for instance, their supply of...
I have said that the farmers are opposed to the Bill and to being placed in a position of compulsion and not being free masters in their own house.
