WOOLLEN GOODS
Protest At Cost (From Our Own Reporter f GREYMOUTH, Dec. 4. West Coast Federated Farmers will seek a report on the reason for the high cost of woollen goods in comparison with the low price of raw wool. The provincial meeting on Friday adopted a Greymouth remit to this effect Mr C. D. MacDonald said that the amount of wool in an article of clothing was very small “and I fail to see how they arrive at such costs.” Mr S. M. Wallace spoke of a cardigan which had increased in price by the same percentage that wool prices had dropped. He asked why wool was nearly pricing itself off the market
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Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31543, 4 December 1967, Page 12
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114WOOLLEN GOODS Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31543, 4 December 1967, Page 12
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