INCREASED WOOL FREIGHTS

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 59, Issue 229, 30 October 1930, Page 5

INCREASED WOOL FREIGHTS

Per Press Association.

HAVE NEVER BEEN HIGHER. FARMERS CONCERNED.

WELLINGTON, This day. Pointing out the increase 1d wool freights, Mr W. J. Polson, M.P.,. last night suggested that the executive of the New Zealand Farmers' Union sliould ask the Meat Board to take control of wool freights as well as xneat freights, as both products came lYom the same animaJ. , Mr Polson referrod to the fact that ibool freight were up five per cent. and had never been higher. When the meat freights contract was made some years ago what was done was to bring down the freight on meat and increase Ihe freight on wool, and to-day the wool people were paying 70 to 75 per cent. above pre-war, simply because they liad nobody to make contracts for them. The suggested move would protect the primary producers against the demands of the shipping companies, for which there was no justification at ' the present time. The executive endorsed the idea. Later the chairman asked for the authority of the executive^ to cable home to Mr Forbes asldng him to look into the question of the increase in wool freights. He would he ahle to make representations to the shipping companies on their behalf, as there was no justification for the increases just n°w. ' . Mr A. E. Harding (Auckland) said lie did not think there was much hope of getfing a reduction owing _ to the smaller amount of imports coming into New Zealand, _ as many ships were coming in hallast to the Dominion to carry hutter _ and meat. IJnless they traded more with England they were not going to get cheap freights.