The Wool Price

Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 104, 27 January 1943, Page 4

The Wool Price

Sir,—Justice, I understand, is to give every man his own. That being so, where is the need for all the talk about the 15 per cent, increase given to the wool producers of New Zealand by the British Government? It has been suggested that it was a mistake, ami should not have been given. It was no mistake. The British Government fully grasped the situation. It knew what the New Zealand Government apparently does not know —that farmers’ costs have risen and are still rising. It is just a matter <)«. business —not that the British Government is more concerned about the wool producer than any other section of the Commonwealth —but that the wool is needed and if handicapped, the woolgrower cannot produce the quantity required. Apart from the logic of the business transaction there is a principle involved — justice—for without it there cau be no freedom. The young manhood of our country are daily giving their lives for it —are we at home to stand idly by while justice is trampled underfoot? —I am, etc., SMALL FARMER’S WIDOW. Hawke’s Bay, January 22.