SHEEP SKINS

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 62, Issue 4403, 17 March 1941, Page 2

SHEEP SKINS

QUESTION OF PRICE. FARMERS’ UNION VIEW. At the annual meeting of the Northern King Country executive of the Farmers’ Union, replying to complaints made by the executive regarding the price paid for sheepskins, since the value of the wool was much in excess of the price paid for the skins, the Minister of Marketing wrote that all New Zealand sheepskins were sold on the following basis —wool to be valued on the basis of present slipe wool price schedule; pell to be Valued in accordance with current market price, an allowance for pulling and fellmongering costs in the United Kingdom of 2id per lb on raw weight of skin. If the pelts Were damaged, then the loss of value was considerable, as the resulting pickled pelts were practicaly unsaleable. “The Minister must think that, the executive is pretty green,” was the general comment—more revenue was obtained from wool shorn off skins than from the skins themselves, though shorn wool was not as valuable as slipe wool and much wool was left on the skins. The matter is to be referred back to the Minister, incorporating a query