WOOL PRICE INCREASE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 January 1943, Page 2

WOOL PRICE INCREASE

REPLY TO PRIME MINISTER. MADE BY MR MULHOLLAND (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. “Your statement reveals a further inaccuracy on the part of Mr Barclay at Oamaru, in that what he described there as a recommendation of the Stabilisation Committee is shown by you to have been a suggestion by the committee of a basis for negotiation with the representatives of the sheepowners—an entirely different thing,” says the Dominion president of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union, Mr W. W. Mulholland, in a letter which he has sent to- the Prime Minister, Mr Fraser. He is replying to Mr Fraser’s statement defending the Minister of Marketing against charges of having acted improperly or unconstitutionally in making public a recommendation of the Stabilisation Committee to the War Cabinet regarding the distribution of the increased price of 15 per cent for wool granted by the United Kingdom. “I have no doubt that the organisations concerned in the previous negotiations, including those which I represent, will be pleased to assist you in reaching finality on this matter,” says Mr Mulholland; “With regard to your last paragraph I can assure you of my appreciation of the Government’s action in giving farmers’ representatives the opportunity of discussing the stabilisation proposals directly affecting their industry and I would also assure you of my personal co-operation! and assistance.”