TALLOW CONTRACT RENEWED: LOWER PRICES
(P.A.) WELLINGTON, June 24. The Minister of Marketing, Mr. K. J. Holyoake, announced yesterday that the tallow contract with the United Kingdom Ministry of Food had been renewed for a further year from October 1, 1950. to August 30, 1951. The new prices would be 2J per cent, below the current prices. Mr, Holyoake indicated that the other terms and conditions were unchanged. except that the Ministry of Food had now agreed that New Zealand could if it so desired sell unrestricted quantities of edible tallow and limited quantities of low grade technical tallow to other markets. FEAR COMPLEX “I heard of a teacher recently who resigned and gave as the reason for his resignation that teachers were afraid of the headmaster; the headmaster was afraid of the inspectors and the board, the board was afraid of the department, the department was afraid of the Minister, the Minister was afraid of the people; the people were afraid of the children, and the children weren’t afraid of anyone,” said the chairman of the Canterbury Education Board (Mr. A. E. Lawrence) speaking at the annual meeting of the Canterbury School Committees’ Association.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23288, 24 June 1950, Page 4
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195TALLOW CONTRACT RENEWED: LOWER PRICES Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23288, 24 June 1950, Page 4
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