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WELLINGTON, Last Night. Mr. G. O'Shea, Dominion secretary of the New Zealand Farmers' Union, denies ihe suggestion of the Minister of Finance, the Hon. W. Nash, that the Nejv Zealand dairy farmers are infinitely in a better position than the Australian farmers. Itcference to thc third annual reporb of the Equalisation Oommittee showed that the averago equalised price for butter the last Australian seas,on was 126/6d, which was equal to a pajr-out of 1/l^d and l/2d a ib. as agailist Mr. Nash's official figure of 12.66d as the average pay-out in New Zealapd lAst season. The average equalisation rate per 1b. for cheese was 8.2l6d against New Zealand's 6.831d. tte eniphasised that the Australian dairy farmer's costs were very much lower than in New Zealand. If any ptoof was needed of this statement, one had only to look up the protests of New Zealand manufacturers against the flood of cheap imports from Australia.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 55, 27 November 1937, Page 9
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164Australian Returns Better Than N.Z. Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 55, 27 November 1937, Page 9
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