Wool
Sir,—l resent the Wool Commission’s announcement regarding disposal of surplus wool. My main line of Romney fleeces consisted of 16 bales, eight of which were presented for sale in Christchurch in March and fetched 31c per lb. The remaining eight bales were forwarded to Timaru and sold at the recent sale for 24c per lb. I am quite prepared for seasonal fluctuations in prices but am not prepared to sit back and tolerate interference which has affected the sale of my wool. My suggestion is that the commission hold its own auction sale at the end of the season, acceptable prices being those pertaining to that particular season. Perhaps if the Wool Commission had never existed at all the country and myself might have been in a far better position. Let us hope, however, that the “big guns” on the commission have not grown so far apart from the working farmer that they have lost their practical sense of selling wool.—Yours, etc., , TWENTY BALER. April 17, 1968.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31659, 20 April 1968, Page 12
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