Trigger price pleases
The setting of the trigger price for wool sold in the new season at 250 c per kg has been applauded by the South Island director of the Sheep . and Cattlemen’s Association (Mr S. A. Taylor). The significance of the Wool Board’s efforts in negotiating the 250 c trigger with the Government would not pass unnoticed by farmers. Mr Taylor said.
In agreeing to this price, the Government had made a “further step away from socialism.” He was proud that a producer board had helned in this. “If the differential between minimum and trigger prices had been narrowed, we would have had another spate of smallfarm sales,” said Mr Taylor. When so many people had trouble with basic English and economics, it was oerhaps appropriate for an old hand to point out to other sections of the community in one-syl-lable words that farmers needed “ten bob a pound (lb) for crossbred wool” (about 220 c per kg) before anyone else could be reasonably sure of a continuing job, said Mr Taylor.
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Press, 16 August 1978, Page 13
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