SALE OF SLIPE WOOL

Evening Star, Issue 23486, 29 January 1940, Page 9

SALE OF SLIPE WOOL

EFFECT OH STOCK PURCHASES STATEMENT BY CHAIRMAN OF MEAT BOARD “ The Meat Board had been in clpso touch with Mr Nash in connection with the sale of the country’s primary products, and the arrangements now made for the sale of New Zealand’s export surplus of slipe wool should bo very favourably received by all farmers of the Dominion," said the chairman of the New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board, Mr T. A. Duncan, in an interview following the • announcement by the / Minister for Marketing, Mr Nash, of the arrangements for the sale of the export surplus of slipe wool to tho United Kingdom. Mr Duncan said that freezing companies and operators had, up to the time of the announcement, been handicapped in assessing the value of wool from fat stock when making out a schedule for the purchase of livestock. “ The price now arranged for the sale of our slipe wool is in excess of tho estimate made in the buying schedules to date," he said, “ and it is pleasing to note that some farmers have already been promised an additional payment on stock purchased to date." Mr Duncan added that it might ha expected that similar action would be adopted by other buyers throughout tho Dominion on stock purchased before tho announcement. No finality had yet been reached with regard to hides, and discussions were still taking place with a view to seeing that satisfactory arrangements wore made to suit all parties. “ Everything possible is being done to complete this matter as quickly as possible,” Mr Duncan said.