Levies Amended For Sheepskins

Grey River Argus, 21 March 1947, Page 7

Levies Amended For Sheepskins

p.A. DUNEDIN, March 19. The committee controlling the collection of levies on sheepskins announces that the rates of levy for various grades of skins have been amended, and will be as follows on all sheepskins purchased as from April 1, 1947: — Super and first pelt; full wools id; three-quarter wools 7d; half wools 7d; quarter wools 7d, shearlings 7d; pelts 7d; hoggets 7d; lambs 7d; merinos sd; woolly blacks 4d; short blacks- 2d; double fleece 2d; milk lambs Id; woolly broken Id; short broken Id.

Second pelt: full woolly 7d; threequarter wools 7d; pelts 7d; - shearlings 7d; hoggets 7d; lambs 7d‘ merinos sd; woolly blacks 4d; shoit blacks 2'd; double fleece 2d; milk lambs Id; woolly broken Id; short broken Id. Dead and badly damaged: full wools sd; three quarter wools sd; half wools 4ld; quarter wools 41d; shearlings 4d; pelts 2d; hoggets sd; lambs sd; merinos 2d; woolly blacks 4d; short blacks 2d; double fleece 2d; milk lambs Id; woolly broken Id; short broken Id. U.S.A. WOOL IMPORTS. WASHINGTON, March 18. The House Agricultural Committee rejected a proposal to establish import quotas on wool. It approved amendments firstly continuing the present Government support of domestic wool on the 1946 basis until December 31, 1948, and, secondly, authorising the Commodity Credit Corporation to dispose of its existing stocks and any it acquires under the support programme, at prices which will make domestic wool competitive with foreign wool. The State Department had opposed wool quotas.