PRICE GUARANTEE.
OTAGO DAIRYMEN’S VIEWS. (Per Press Association.) DUNEDIN, This Day. The new guaranteed price, if it is going to enable' tlie small cheese factory to make a butterfat payment of Is 5-Jd must ho regarded as highly satisfactory said a prominent Otago dairy farmer, when asked to comment on the price. The ordinarily efficient dairyman must be able to make money and do well with such return, provided always that his costs are not allowed to creep up much higher. It was stated, however, that the main problem had not yet been solved. The Government had not arranged things so as to enable farmers to obtain the necessary farm labour. It was a good price, notwithstanding that it fell below the Committee’s recommendations, but it did not yet put the dairy farmer in a position of being able to cope with the Public Works Department in the matter of labour. Wages were still too high, arid the hours too short to permit of adequate labour being employed on dairy farms.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 58, Issue 289, 17 September 1938, Page 8
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