FARMERS PENALISED

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 68, Issue 5941, 10 May 1944, Page 3

FARMERS PENALISED

LEND-LEASE PRICES Sir, —The chairman of our own company, New Zealand Dairy (Mr Hale) is always drawing a smoke screen across the real issue in pleading for the farmers not to ask England for. an increase in the present price of our food products. There is no doubt at all about the farmers producing to the full, if given the manure now held in store for “a rainy day,” blind to the fact that is pouring today. However the following are f.o.b. prices at which we sell some of our products to U.S.A, and the f.o.b. prices for the same products quoted by U.S.A, for shipment from their ports to England we must presume:— N.Z. price. U.S.A, price. Wool 14d per lb 27.1 d per lb Lamb 9d per lb 19.4 d per lb Pork 7d per lb 13.5 d per lb Butter lG.5d per lb 34.5 d per lb Cheese 8.5 d per lb 20d per lb We seem to be mixing up sentiment with business and instead of negotiating on sound business lines derive some increase of satisfaction from selling our goods under market value. —I am, etc., JAS. MILLEN.