FREEZING WORKS COSTS

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21907, 7 October 1936, Page 13

FREEZING WORKS COSTS

TO tH2 EDITOR OP THE PH*s*. Sir,-—We read in your paper of incasing costs to farmers, instancing the freezing works for example. We are informed that killing charges are to rise by £2 a 100 for sheep, this in addition to the already high rate which the South Island Is charged. Surely there is some way of reducing costs without coming at us warmers. In the season, where I hve, 10 different buyers operate, and sometimes half of them work in my vicinity cn the same day, eachwith a drover, taking perhaps !°0 Jo SOO lambs. These buyers, I understand, receive from £4OO to £SOO for about five months In the season. The rest of the year is spent in going luxurious cars to race meetings and any other gathering# which happen to be on We are told it costs Id to *d per lb to buy our lambs. Now. as the day of buying on the hoof has disappeared, any average farmer can man? With a piece of raddle a fat lamb. This being so, are we not entitled to a price delivered at the works so that we can have the advantage of this unnecessary expense? Most of the buyers (or l *bould say drafters, to be correct) have other means of Uve.ihood hnd no sreat hardship could come to them/ P lo bably there are many more places where costs could be reduced shareholders of our ccmpamefl would only awake to the fact.-Yours .eta. SHEEP FARMER. October 5, 1938.