SHEEP FARMING
INDUSTRY'S POSITION
The present position of the sheepfarming industry in New Zealand indicated that economic trouble could develop very quickly, said the Dominion secretary of the New Zealand Farmers' Union (Mr. A. P. O'Shea) when commenting on a proposal by Mr. L. T. Daniell, Masterton, to stabilise returns from fat ewes by means of a levy of 4d a lamb on all lambs exported.
The sheep farmer had received a blow through the drop in ewe prices, said Mr. O'Shea. This was going to be particularly hard on the men on second- and third-class country who were breeding ewes which were eventually used in fat-lamb raising.
"If we are not careful New Zealand will wake up in a year or two to find that the carrying capacity of our hill country has declined to an alarming extent," he added. "The problem of the sheep farmer and the economic aspect of the depreciation of the hill country are the most vital matters facing New Zealand at the present time—and they are being ignored.
"It is not a case of killing the goose that lays the golden egg. It is a case of killing the hen that lays the ordinary work-a-day egg for the family."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 150, 22 December 1938, Page 11
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205SHEEP FARMING Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 150, 22 December 1938, Page 11
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