REDUCED WAGES FOR

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 44, 16 November 1926, Page 10

REDUCED WAGES FOR

SHEEP FARMER 4 WHOLE COMMUNITY MAY FEEL EFFECTS COMMENT ON YESTERDAY’S WOOL SALE B£ Telegraph.—Press association. Mastertoil, November 15. Commenting on to-day’s wool sale in Wellington, Mr. W. B. Matheson said: “At Hastings to-day a Labour organisation handed to the Press a resolution recommending the Alliance of Labour to ask British workers not to purchase New Zealand meat as it is being produced by black-leg labour. The truth is that the average sheep farmer in New Zealand is earning smaller wages than the butchers who are declining to help New Zealand to keep busy. In Wellington to-day typical wool fetched twopence a pound less than last year. This not only means reduced wages for the sheep farmer, but a loss to New Zealand of millions of income as compared with last year, when the prices realised were below the cost of production in many cases. “These two items of news are of serious import to everyone in New. Zealand, for if export falls seriously below last year’s totals there will not be incomings to enable the average citizen to maintain his present standard of living. It is to be hoped that the man in the street will quicjtly become aware of the true position, so that further losses may be guarded against.”