PRICE FOR MEAT AND WOOL

Southland Times, Issue 23827, 26 May 1939, Page 7

PRICE FOR MEAT AND WOOL

FARMERS DEFER DECISION (United Press Association) MASTERTON, May 25. The inter-provincial conference of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union decided today that the question of accepting a guaranteed price for meat and wool should be deferred until after the finding of the Royal Commission recently set up and that the Prime Minister (the Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage) should be asked to fix an early reporting date for the commission. The following remits were carried:— (1) Advocating a national levy of the necessary fraction of Id per lb on all meat killed for providing a stabilization and compensation scheme. (2) Endorsing the desirability of bringing about closer co-operation between farmers and business people in view of the economic conditions. (3) Asking that as a long-term policy costs should be reduced and, as far as possible, based in future always on the farming income. (4) Asking for a classification of hill country, deteriorated lands not worth attempting to save to be abandoned as early as possible and planted. The conference referred to the Dominion executive a remit urging that the exchange rate should be allowed to reach its natural level.