FARMERS’ PLIGHT
“BEADY- TO GIVE SHEEP AWAY” MELBOURNE, Nov. 0. Abolition of the Federal land tax, a reduction of the tariff on the tools of production, and Ihc establishment of co-operative markets and the /.one system of distribution of food wore remedies suggested by Senator Guthrie to members of the Housewives’ Association to-day for reducing the gap between returns to producers and prices paid by consumers. Breeders bad never received lower prices for sheep, said Senator Guthrie. He could obtain 100,000 sheep in New South Wales and Queensland for nothing, but it would not pay to remove them. Thousands of ewes were being boiled down for tallow because it did not pay to send them to market. Yet housewives were still paying pviees'ior meat out of all proportion to fhe breeders ’ receipts. The same remarks, lie said, woro applicable to most other products.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17944, 23 November 1932, Page 7
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