Those lazy cockies

Concerning The Cockies Plight' in your issue of July 17. I would like to say that the article—although based on some interesting statistics (which we all know can always be fiddled to argue both points of views) was—in my opinion grossly exaggerated in its depiction the supposedly poor NZ cocky. Coming from a small country town myself and having done a considerable amount of farmwork on a number of farms both hill country and lowland and thus knowing a little about the situation I can verily say I have never read so much bloody soppy bullshit. The average NZ cockle is bone fucking lazy—stock fall over banks as a result of no fenc 3—scrub grows as a result of no control and apart from wiping his own arse, whenever a cockie wants something done on his land he calls a contractor sooner than do it himself. Those who loose stock and have scrub problems and erosion etc, although having a dilapidated farm are bloody likely to have a 1974 falcon and colour TV and a $20 a week beer sponge hanging over their belts.

For what many so-called farmers actually know about running a farm, I wouldn't give a tin of boiled goalshit. Its true that big companies are controlling many farms—jesus—if they weren't we'd really be in the shit.

P.S. If you print all the other shit I read, you can print this.