PRICE OF WOOL
"It is obvious* that the Minister of Agriculture (Mr. Barclay) does not appreciate the meaning of the word 'subsidise,'" says an official statement issued by the New Zealand Farmers' Union. - "It is an entirely novel idea that to ask for the full price of an article is asking for a subsidy. Does the Minister suggest that a coal merchant is asking for a subsidy from the consumer when he asks for the full price of a bag of coal? "The plain fact is that Mr. Barclay is asking the farmers of New Zea» land to subsidise the consumers of woollen goods. That is, he is asking a section of the people to bear a subsidy to the public as a whole. If it is fair to ask the farmers of the Domin? ion to give the public wool for woollen goods at less than its ruling price, it would be just as fair to ask the railways to carry the wool for less than their usual charge, for the watersiders to handle it for less than their award rate of wages, and for the woollen mill workers to make it up for less than the rates laid down by the Arbitration Court."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 17, 20 July 1942, Page 7
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205PRICE OF WOOL Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 17, 20 July 1942, Page 7
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