BURDEN TOO HEAVY
Primary Producer’s Costs
SHEARING AND FREIGHT ,
A striking example of the problems the primary producer is faced with was given by Lord Barnby in the course ot his address to the Wellington Chamber f Commerce yesterday. , . , Lord Barnby said he happened to have sdrae contact with the wool industry, and he had thought it would be interesting to see what was the surrender in produce which the woolgrower had to make in order to pay for some portion of his costs. “I find,” he said, “taking two items—shearing and freights—that three years ago the woolgrower had to yield seven out of every hundred bales to pay for freight; to-day he has to yield 22 bales. Bor shearing he has,to yield at the present rate thirteen bales. Therefore, if you take both items together, you find that he has to surrender 35 out of every hundred bales. . “I suggest,” added Lord Barnby amid applause, "that that is too heavy a burden for any industry to carry.” Lord Barnby is principal of a large wool-buying Bradford firm.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19301209.2.83
Bibliographic details
Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 64, 9 December 1930, Page 12
Word Count
178BURDEN TOO HEAVY Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 64, 9 December 1930, Page 12
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Dominion. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.