MAURICEVILLE FACTORY
(Special to the "Evening Post.")
MASTERTON, This Day. Asked last evening what pay-out his company was likely to make under the guaranteed-price scheme, Mr. W. P. Carter, secretary of the MauricevUle" Co-operative Dairy Company, said that after taking all costs into consideration he expected it would not quite rerh Is Id per lb butterfat. Last season his company paid- just on Is. Mr. Carter added that if a "forty-hour week were adopted for factory workers, it would mean the addition of another l-5d per lb butterfat to - meet the increased cost of wages. There was also a definite increase in the cost of : butter boxes. I think, speaking generally, that the average farmer is going to be worse off," he added, "although the man without mortgages will be all right."
Another important factor bearing on the return to the. farmer, Mr. Carter said, was the .increased cost of labour, as an adult worker had to be paid £2 12s 6d per week and keep. Exactly how farmers who employed labour were going to fare he did not know, especially those who had mortgage commitments. ■ .
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 32, 6 August 1936, Page 10
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MAURICEVILLE FACTORY
Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 32, 6 August 1936, Page 10
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