SHEEP FOR RUSSIA
FARMERS' CONCERN
FUTURE COMPETITION
(Special to the "Evening Post.") PALMERSTON N., This Day. A fear that there might i>e ; ser'f-ss; results for the New Zealand sheep farmer as a result of the activities of the Russian buying commission, now in the Dominion was expressed at tha meeting of the executive of the Southern Hawke's Bay Farmers' Union, and i the Dominion executive is to be written to asking them to watch the posiMr N. Tilley stated that the commission intended buying 68,000 rams, though he did not know whether all were to be purchased here. He had also been told that Russian buyers m England purchased without regard to price, and if that method were followed in New Zealand the country would lose all its best rams to another nation that would compete against the Dominion in practically the only market. . . The chairman, Mr. J. Livingston, pointed out that New Zealand rams had been going to the Argentine to improve stock there.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 67, 20 March 1937, Page 6
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