FREEZING BUTCHERS' DEFIANCE

Evening Star, Issue 19407, 16 November 1926, Page 4

FREEZING BUTCHERS' DEFIANCE

DANGER OF FALLING EXPORTS [Fen United Press Association.] MASTERTON, November 15.. Commenting on to-day’s wool sale at Wellington, Mr W. B. Matheson said: “At Hastings to-day a Labor organisation handed to the Press a resolution recommending the Alliance of Labor to ask the British workers not to purchase Now Zealand meat, as it was being produced by 1 blackleg ’ labor. The truth is that the average sheep farmer in New Zealand is. earning smaller wages than the butchers who aro declining to help New Zealand to keep busy. In Wellington to-day wool fetched 2d a pound less than last year. This not only means reduced wages for the sheep farmer, but a loss to Now Zealand of millions of income, as compared with last year. Prices realised were below the cost of production in many cases, “ These two items of news are of sen■ous import to everyone in New Zealand, for if export falls seriously below last year’s total there will not be the_ incomings to enable the average citizen to maintain his present standard of living. It is to be hoped that the man in the street will quickly become aware of the true position, so that further losses may be guarded against.”