NEW PRICES

Waikato Independent, Volume XLIV, Issue 6100, 10 September 1947, Page 5

NEW PRICES

FOR ENGLISH FARMERS “DOING FAIRLY WELL” ’ In the course of impressions of his tour given to the conference of Federated Farmers, N.Z. (Waikato Province), at Hamilton on Monday, the Dominion President, Mr W. N. Perry, said he believed that the farmer in England was doing fairly well at pre-, sent, as a new basis of prices, agreed to just recently by the Nation Farmers’ Union gave him a better return. For instance; aiulk was sold at 2/6 a gallon; fat cattle at 98/3 live weight per cwt.; mutton at 2/11 and lamb at 2/3 lb; fat pigs at 36/- per score weight; eggs 4/- per dozen; wool 2/1 per lb.; and several other lines at comparative prices. There were higher prices all round, said Mr Perry, and this included stock replacements. For instance he had seen a line of Ayrshire heifers sold at £62 each. ' .