Farm Notes

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43354, 28 July 1908, Page 1

Farm Notes

tBCEBISEfiN WOOL.

predictiohr f (Bayß the Manakau Ch?omcle) .‘ regarding the bright projects* lhado >in our last issue, are . by the cable ; . ,announcing a substantial rise in wool. together \rith ‘ the splendid I.: the dairy industry, ' ra*tty insure an exceedingly good _;..ti^g:iEor.ftiie^< ; lairsier and for the #’•« whble. In former when.j .the > ; people New > Zealand pracUcallykept all theireggs , •in (me basket, a fall in wool meant V nf farmers. .For* 4 ; Is not so-now because the have . learnt the. folly of ,-r] . . % j ©sa:pne-;istaple product: ' £@B8 j grain, and \ thp? wool industry i " When, therefore; a rise; Jinyalae9 takeß)place in the two chief of JtKe :>: country’s exports, nwopf ! i Snd ■'prpdiice, a great $ ex- . 'necessary at this - ■®t J age L causesWbibh led ■; ih ; the t value of wool. 1 1 Wrfaneial crisis in 1 one, but I ' i feoi.ihfttjt£® decline meant a loss. of money to New ... \Zealandr)khows what a benefit the • tQC&vmy -in vdlue will be' to the It; ;ibe high 1 prioe bf dairy produce, . maintain the ■ prosperity which;the Dominion has so lhak:.anjoyed,: r ‘bi(it: which; ‘it 1 was was about- to ! jjass away. If was .bring ddne; to increase the H the...• Dominion l there H - would not be-me,. same fluctuations in ■ v the price of woolas the local consump* H tion wouldbe, sufficient to maintain a |H " Steady price: ;As it was no less than H ; '120,000 bail& of wool Were sold in the |H New .Zealand market, and with an ■ increase in the nopulation this qnan■he doubled because pf tbe New Zealand > largely increased, this would- largely consumption of wool »e d-rise in duty on ade s woollen goods, '(Quantities . of ihpiap, Vshoddy, 'woollen goods imi HH ported into the Dominion which have ' a serious effect on the -Dominion f Woollen Mills. If the importation vjsjjß/ of this, class of' stuff was stopped it j||H would give an immense impetus to the ! work ..of - . the mills which are HHH Struggling -to exist in various parts of the'Dominion, give employment to a g|gß large number of people, and generally |B|H , assist;in promoting the prosperity of ■■ -the: Dominion.• v- • "••*

Fof/\the’ seasonended June 30, jcHsboime •wool and meat exports were M follows Wool,' 40,418 bales, an inorfaap of 4448 bales on last year. Mu£pp„:, 4 4721 b, increase a :imlJiofMiri<l a half pounds. Lambs, 18,487,188 lb» increase ; 857,9301 b. MSgf 127, 7621 b, increase 940,6591 b. of the. export trade close on one million pounds, [se exact figures being £946,496. '