THEIR RIGHT TO HOLD

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 41, 18 February 1930, Page 13

THEIR RIGHT TO HOLD

I Gebowubs* point W. Sufis

%/ "■"■• - V KHiWAY SHOW fflWOm <v * TJd« Dt?. HU«et of a £m toewdon by *«*»» StSndJpg the Marterton A. sad F. S£aoetvt£»>D show. OenenJly th» *cUuTZt the b«y«« ia d*sUnlM to «tSid <&• mHiblm the minlatum of •toed. The growew eondder that they JET the iljht to expert J W*"nf"« MiM, for their product, and ttrtOff STwdl within their rights In withSniwiag their wool from the market if SZS&UVtom are not MkM-te "A man who has something to aeU im the right to state his price," said o*e .heep farmer to a "Post" "preeeatatlve. "If the manufacturer tnrns out SB arttele he decides the price at which he e«n afford to put it on the market, M d h« does not let it go out under that prioe. The wool grower at present find* that he is unable to carry on at the price which he is being offered for hi« product, and he decides to hold on until next season, when there is a possibility of better price?. Can you Name him? It costs us something like one shilling per pound to produce wool, and the best average price we can hope for is round about sixpence. How can the fanner hope to carry on under such toonditionßt Bankruptcy is the only ttwssible result." The news of the decision of the buy- %» not to attend the Wellington sales oa Thursday was received with regret i* the Wdrarapa. "If the waterside workers decline to lead ow prodnee, we say lota of hard Stem about them. Now the buyers te« acting similarly, and mm entitled to criticise them aa well," said tee farmer to-day.