Contradictions

Maoriland Worker, Volume 10, Issue 448, 8 October 1919, Page 8

Contradictions

-W<> .'.'ill ba lucky if we ( ..,n ..e. L.ii (boats;. ii; "any carte there wilt be a cre._t many <.xi.rca.vs in store in New Zealand at the bey i lining" of Ihe in it season, and a. possibility of a, .eriou. congest inn, which: would l.ad 1..« a ssiio.l-) Ihmi.cial position, Especially With freeziiiij companies." —Statement b y Sir .lames Wilson a! IXiinei-i" Union ..',.•",X-.Jv.f. ■ ■Tv -X- ii -x Value of butler and cheese exported from New Zealand in 1911!, as per t-'O Government Statistician, _C3,50i,_9~. Payment-) made i'or butter and cheese for t-e 1918-1919 season under the Imperial Purchase ecbeme, as per statement in the Wellington Evening Post, l„/./19, „-£5..33,132. Difference, -.5,001,1 S.. •_•"•:•■<•* Value of wool exported from New Zealand in 1913, as per Government Statistician, ..8,0.7,020. Money paid to wool kings for wool from July 1, 1913 to June 30, 1919, under Imperial Purchase scheme,, .£l-,G06,3"2_. Difference, J-_,s_-,70G. In addition to the value or _.3_5,_33 was sold within th* Dominion. * # -a ••:- Value of frozen meat exported from New Zealand in the four years between 1910 to 19.13, as per Government Statistician, .£15,713,085. Money paid for frozen, meat under Imperial Purchase scheme during period from 3/3/15 to August 31, 1919, __i,0,235,73_. Difference, .£2_,52_,0_7. •x- * * * "Income, had bc.u increased through Ui. inliuiX-n X profits."—Statement by lion. W. 1). S. MucDonaXi, ex-Minister of Agricuiiui- at Commercial Traveller.* Guzzle. W T ageg of New Zealand ehed hands, 1919, .£2/10/- a week; pressers __2/12/G a week. "The dairyman in general is merely working for wages, ami it hag been calculated that ho is paid at the rate of __d per hour, and when the payments he receives, which are stated to be high and that the dairyman is making a mint of money, are compared with the ratt. paid in other industries, it will be seen that, instead of exploiting the public, the public is exploiting the butter producer."—Statement mad e by Sir Jatn*_ Wilson at the Parmera' Union Conference. •x- * * •» "Th© producer thus m the only man who does not make a, profit, and is called an exploiter in addition."—Stanement by Sir James Wilsoi. at Parmera' Union Conference.