SLIPE WOOL AND HIDES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 4816, 13 March 1918, Page 5

SLIPE WOOL AND HIDES.

CONFERENCE DECISIONS. Press Association Telegram. WELLINGTON. March 12. The Prime Alinister desires that it should be made public that as an outcome of the conference of representatives of the producers, freezing companies, meat, pelt and hide exporters, tanners, fellmongers, woolbrokers and industrial associations held at AYellington last week to consider important proposals affecting the interests of those present at the conference, lie placed himself in ■communication by telegraph with the High Commissioner and conveyed the sense of tho resolutions passed. These are in the direction of providing that slipe wool be valued entirely in the Dominion, that the requisition of sheep skins, which it was desired in the first instance, be abandoned, should now he continued with some minor amendments, that the present hides requisition shall continue operative to June 36 next and, in-so-far as lamb' pelts are concerned, which will only be permitted to he shipped to the United . Kingdom, the attention of the Home authorities be drawn to the fact that holders of same find themselves in an unfortunate position as the result of not being able to obtain shipping facilities to the United Kingdom and in consequence are prevented from realising on same.