OPOSSUM BOUNTY
Reinstatement Declined (N.Z. Press Association) HAMILTON, Aug. 20. The Minister of Forests <Mr Gerard) has declined to reinstate the bounty scheme for vpossum skins. In a letter to the meat and wool section of Waikato Federated Farmers, Mr Gerard said luwer-g ade skins were not kept off the market during the scheme's 10 years “1 can see no possibility of a change should the scheme be reinstated,” he said. The meat and wool section had passed a remit on June 18 asking the Government to reinstate the bounty as a temporary measure only, with a view to keeping low-grade skins off the overseas market. A further inducement to trappers to market only the best skins was a subsidy scheme operating in conjunction with the bounty said the let er
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30215, 21 August 1963, Page 16
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