FOOLING AND BOYCOTT.
[IST TELEGRAPH.— CORRESPONDENT.]
Dukedi.v, Thursday. The quesi.ons of pooling orders for manure and boycotting are agitating the minds of members of the Glut ha branch of* the New Zealand Fanners' Union. It appears that in one district several email .syndicates were formed, and as a result they got a certain class of manure at a. reduction of £1 per ton. The usual market price of manure was £4 7s 6d per ton in Dunedin, equal to £4 15s railage paid. By pooling" their orders they got it at £3 15s per ton delivered. The first year they got ,150 tons, and the third year more, joined in, and the order went up to ,400 tons,, and the acents sold at the same price. Now through' pressure this thing has been blocked, and the price has been increased to £4. The matter of a threatened boycott by certain agents against the firm 'with whom the farmers', syndicates had privately " pooled" their orders, was discussed, and the follow-' ing resolution was carried:"That owing to several agency firms having prevented importers from supplying manure to a syndicate of fanners in this district at the same price as. last year, the meeting resolves not to purchase from the firms referred to until the above condition is withdrawn." ■' .
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13192, 1 June 1906, Page 4
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216FOOLING AND BOYCOTT. New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13192, 1 June 1906, Page 4
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