WIDE DISCREPANCY

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 135, 10 June 1942, Page 6

WIDE DISCREPANCY

WOOL PRICE MARGIN FARMERS DEMAND INQUIRY (0.C.) NEW PLYMOUTH, this day. The wide discrepancy between the price received by the farmer for his raw wool and the price paid by the farmer's wife for knitting wool was a matter that should be taken up, stated Mr. W. A. Sheat at the South Taranaki conference of the Farmers' Union at Hawera. It also seemed wrong that in one of the greatest wool-producing countries in the world there should be restrictions on the purchasing of wool, he added, in commenting that it took fewer coupons to buy a cardigan than it did to buy the wool to knit it. People should be encouraged to buy wool and do their own knitting, instead of being discouraged to do so, he said. He questioned whether it should be necessary to ration wo'ol. He also urged that a full investigation should be made into the availability, cost and need for rationing of wool. The conference decided to ask the Price Tribunal to conduct an investigation. It was considered that wool for making balaclavas and other knitted articles for the men overseas should not require coupons.