A Sensible Suggestion
In an editorial article on " The Wool Problem," the Wairarapa Daily Times points out that some years ago butter was fourpence a pound and wool a shilling ; now the position is reversed. Machinery has been introduced ; full advantage has been taken of the principle of co-operation ; and with butter" a shilling a pound insted of fourpence, the dairy-man has become sleek and fat. Our contemporary finds the remedy for the low price of wool in the export of the manufactured article in place of the raw material. "Is there no machine to come to the aid of the wool-grower ?" it asks. "We fancy there is, and that if wool were run on the lines of butter-fat the growers could double the price which they now
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Motueka Star, Volume I, Issue 17, 8 October 1901, Page 4
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132A Sensible Suggestion Motueka Star, Volume I, Issue 17, 8 October 1901, Page 4
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