Biggest rise internal
The chairman of the meat and wool section of North Canterbury Federated Farmers, Mr A. F. Wright, had some interesting figures to present to the meat marketing forum in Ashburton last week about the way that costs have risen in getting a 301 b New Zealand lamb from the farm gate to the United Kingdom. He found that in the period between 1960 and early this year the New Zealand part of the overall cost had risen more than the external element As at mid January each year he said that the total cost of getting the lamb from the farm gate to the United Kingdom had risen from $2.47 in 1960 to $4.02 today.
The internal costs in the same period had risen from $l.Ol to $l.B3 —an increase of 81 per cent which had mostly occurred in the last five years. Over that time he said that killing charges had risen by more than 100 per cent From the port to London, he said the costs had risen from $1.46 per lamb to $2.19 or by 50 per cent
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32588, 23 April 1971, Page 12
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