FARMERS' WOOL PROFITS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18049, 24 September 1920, Page 7

FARMERS' WOOL PROFITS.

TO TIIE EDITOR. Sir, —I crave space to reply to S. T letter to you of the 2->nd inst. He is evidently not very conversant with tho matter referred to in his letter. It is quite correct that somewhere in tho vicinity of three million pounds is to bo paid to the farmer wool , producer, who, wo will say, were epeoially privileged to stop at home and produce wool. They, of necessity, were engaged in tremendous hardships, thousands of miles from the bullets, suffering no disability, yet getting 50 per oent. increase on the pre-war price of wool, so that the very men who went to _ the war and suffered wounds and death in many cases, and who really created tho demand, aaio the loser, while the wenJthy woolgrower, who watclied his wool grow, his proats enlarging, is, in addition, to receive a gratuity for his sacrifice. It is true that tlio farming community resDCided fairly well, but it would be interesting to know how many wealthy woolgrowers were on service. It is quite well known that a number of them had cushy positions in the Nenv Zealand home servioe One wonders. Sir, whether S. T. is a capitalist. Yes, tho soldiers were indeed lucky to «et the gratuity, poor as it is compared with other dominions, but, fortunately, there is yet hope for tho woolgrower getting their further gratuity.—l <un, etc., E. J.