IMPROVED DEMAND

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22438, 19 September 1947, Page 6

IMPROVED DEMAND

OPOSSUM SKIN SALE Although the quality of the olfering was generally poor, prices at the first opossum skin sales of the season, held in Dunedin yesterday, showed a slight recovery on those of the December sale, at which the level of values was disappointing to the trappers. Messrs Dalgety and Company, Limited, report on yesterday’s salt as. under:—"Quality was generally poor, with a large proportion of North Island skins. As compared with the December sale, supers and firsts, light colours, appreciated Is 3d to Is 9d, darks 3d to lOd, seconds and thirds, all colours, 3d to fid; inferior, small and rough, three-quarters and stale skins sold at low prices." Food for Maori Functions The Northern Wairoa Returned Services Association decided to protest to Ihe Government through the New Zea land R.S.A. against the ease with which permits for rationed commod ities were obtained for Maori gatherings, in spite of the need for aid to Britain. It was also decided to request that no permits be granted for rationed goods, particularly meat and butter, for large public functions, and that steps be taken to prevent the waste of petrol and use of public services for such functions. Preferred io Make No Statement Mr. K. McL. Baxter, secretary of the Federation of Labour, stated in Wellington yesterday that he preferred to make no statement about the cablegram from Australia which attributed to him remarks at the conference of the Australian Council of Trade Unions in Melbourne about deficiencies in the operation of the 40-hour week in New Zealand and which caused the federation's executive to seek an elaboration from him of what he said on the ground that the observations did not. seem to be in line with the policy and opinion of the federation. lie said the newspapers were at the conference all the time.

Butter Price Negotiations Dairy Board representatives who went to London for talks with the British Government on the new season s prices have returned and are now conferring with the Dairy Products Marketing Commission. Mr. W. E. Hale, chairman of the Dairy Board, said in Wellington on Tuesday that the delegation had made only a brief visit to London and had been fully occupied in the price negotiations. The details were now being discussed with the commission. The New Zealand representatives at the talks in London were Mr. G- A. Duncan, of the Wool Disposal Commission, Mr. H. Davis, Marketing Department representative in London, Mr. L. C. Webb, director ot stabilisation, and Messrs. Hale, A. H. Ward and A. Linton, of the Dairy Board.—-P.A.