N.Z. WOOL PACKS
Sir,—l notice that Mr Begg, of Otago, has criticised the Government’s entry into the wool pack industry and Mr Sullivan has taken exception to his remarks. I would like Mr Sullivan to explain one point in the business. The majority of wool presses in the country are 46 and 48 inches. All the flax packs are 42 inches, so they hold six inches less wool than a 48-inch pack. The effect is that an extra bale is required where eight were formerly used—about 100,000 altogether, to be paid for by the sheep owners. If the average number used by the sheep owner is 15 48-inch packs he will use 17 42-inch ones. Say pressing two bales is worth 4s and to cart wool five miles to a railway station and 50 miles to Christchurch costs 6s, the cost of a pack, pressing and freight amounts to 13s 9d on 100 bales, which amounts to nearly £70,000. I would like to know by what authority this 42-inch pack was imposed on the sheep owners?— Yours, etc.. INQUIRER. June 9. 1941.
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Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23353, 12 June 1941, Page 8
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