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and N.Z. Cable Aaisociaiion PROFIT IN OPOSSUMS. BRISBANE, September 15. In the Assembly, Mr Gillies, 'Secretary of Agriculture and Stock, stated that the yearly income from the sale of opossum skins from 1917 to 1923 amounted to £300,000. It was proposed to charge a royalty of a penny a skin. This source of wealth was practically equal to the gold yield.
FORESTRY CONFERENCE. SYDNEY, Sept. 15. The Australian Forestry Conference has concluded- its sittings. It decided that the next conference be field” in' Victoria in'l92.6i Confidential resolutions relating to tliat’ conference, also to the Empire ' Forest" 5 ' Conference,' which it desired /should be' held in Australia in 1928 'were agreed ’ to: Among other resolutions passed was one that it was essential for the development. of forestry that a ■school for professional training should be established for the whole of Australia and New Zealand, and the conference recommended it should be associated with a University within the Commonwealth. ’’ ' /
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Greymouth Evening Star, 15 September 1924, Page 5
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