THE OUTBACK FARMER.
INCREASED OPERATING COSTS. The outback farmer is at present on the AA’rong side of the economic scheme of things, according to a Wairoa settler present at the avool sale in Napier. This grazier, Avhose clip Avas auctioned, expected to get for his avool the same rate as ruled before the Avar. Against this he pointed out to a pressman the follOAVing differences in the operating costs: — It noA\- costs 48s to 50s per acre to cut bush, as against 28s before the Avar. Grass seed is noAV 2s 6d per lb., AVhereas’ prior to the Avar it Avas lOd. Woolpacks, AA’hich Avere. formerly 2s 9d, are now 6s 3d; twine, once Is Cd. is noAV 3s 4d. Shearing costs have risen from l £1 per 100 to £1 10s. Asked hoAV the hard-up farmer could run a. palatial motor-ear on these figures, as most settlers seem to do in this province, the speaker smiled, and said that all he could say Avas that the Hawke’s Bay motor-car salesmen must be “go-getters” in the full sense of the expressive Yankee designation.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 12 March 1927, Page 16
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183THE OUTBACK FARMER. Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 12 March 1927, Page 16
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