COLLECTION OF WIRE

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 51, Issue 3139, 13 July 1942, Page 3

COLLECTION OF WIRE

CLEARING SALES’ OFFERING

FARMERS’ UNION CRITICISM

While many farmers have made available to the Army their full quota of barb wire, even to the extent of stripping some of their fences, it was considered at a meeting of the Waikato branch of the Farmers’ Union in Hamilton manifestly unfair that certain farmers should be permitted to offer wire at clearance sales.

One case was quoted by Mr A. W. Moore in. which 14cwt. had been sold for £34 at a clearing sale at Te Kowhai. Another delegate referred to a recent case where wire removed from the Waikato Airport

Board’s property had been sent in to" the Frankton sale to be disposed of. Branches, in approaching farmers in connection with their quota of wire, were placed at a considerable disadvantage as a consequence of such practices.

It was stressed by another speaker that it was the duty of branches to see that no hardship was occasioned. on individual farmers. In his district wire had been contributed on a cow basis, while in other districts other methods of arriving at an equitable quota had been decided on.

It was decided that the matter be referred to the Dominion conference.