BARTER IN SOUTH WEST AFRICA.

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20920, 29 July 1933, Page 16

BARTER IN SOUTH WEST AFRICA.

i TIMBER FOR MOTOR VEHICLES.

The news comes from Windhoek (South-West Africa) that trade bybarter is becomingly increasingly popular in South-West Africa. Firewood is being exchanged for daily necessities by farmers in well-wooded areas. Recently HO loads of wood were exchanged for a touring car and a lorry. Even hotel-keepers are said to be prepared to receive payment in kind. On Saturday mornings, when farmers come into town, one motor dealer's showroom in Windhoek takes on the appearance of a produce mart, with farmers bringing in ducks, chickens, vegetables, tomatoes, hides, and skins in payment of instalments on their motor-cars. An advertisement in a local newspaper offering a villa for sale stated that karakul skins or karakul sheep would be taken in payment. The Administration has been approached to take sheep in payment of taxes in certain areas. In the Union the system has increased in outlvins Darts, where the

farmers like their neighbours in South-West Africa, find it economical and convenient, but with facilities for export and the help of the resulting subsidies Union producers generally have not yet shown a liking for transactions by barter.

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