PROFITS FROM WOOL
DISSATISFACTION IN AUSTRALIA."
GROWER SHOULD GET MORE
(Australian . Press Association.)
•SYDNEY, Se.p 6,
Mr Trethowan, M.L.C., General Manager of the Farmers’- and Graziers’ 00-opei'ative Company, giving evidence before the Federal Wool Committee, said that knitting yarn costs 16s per lb, but all the grower revives from that is 2s. A suit of clothes costs £lO 10s, and for the wool in it the grower gets about 10s. This was the problem that faced the industry. An inquiry should be made into the question of where the difference is going. If the consumer liad to pay ,a certain sum for his wool, why did not ti\e grower get more for his wool.
He quoted the case of a widow in New S'outh Wales who is working her station of 150,000 acres, carrying ten thousand sheep, with the assistance of a solitary jackaroo, yet could not make a profit.
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Hokitika Guardian, 7 September 1932, Page 5
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