DAIRY PROBLEMS
AMAZING FIGURES CHEESE FACTORY COSTS FARMER AND FACTORY. HAND* 1 COMPARISON. OF EARNINGS [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] NEW PLYMOUTH, Friday Figures showing the tremendously harmful effect of high wages costs and. short hours on the cheese industry amazed the National Dairy Conference at New Plymouth this morning, and it was decided to make an emphatic protest to the Government. Examples were given of cheese fao» tories that had been forced to close down in the North and South Islands. Others were stated to be right on the verge of doing so. It was emphasised that if cheese factories turned to butter the consequent glut of supplies would mean a slump in butter prices. It was stated that the best share a farmer could hope of the guaranteed price was £4 a week. A worker in a 120-ton cheese factory averaged £5 19s a week throughout the year, while a manager in the same factory received only £5 14s a week!
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23073, 25 June 1938, Page 17
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162DAIRY PROBLEMS New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23073, 25 June 1938, Page 17
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