LOCAL AMI PERSONAL

Hawera Star, Volume LII, 30 January 1933, Page 7

LOCAL AMI PERSONAL

The death of Professor George Sants'bury has occurred, states a Press Association cable despatched! from London yesterday. He was 80 years of age. Relief work was allocated to Hawera unemployed this week on the basis of two days for A class men, two and a half and three days (respectively for B class men without dependents and Bclass men with dependents, and four days' -for Q class men, the maximum amount of their earnings being 15s, £1 ss, £1 10s and £2 respectively. Local bodies assisted by 7 taking the following quotas: Hawera County Council, 37 B and three C class men; Hawera Borough Council, two A, seven B and 16 C class men; Hawera Hospital Board, two A, 21 B and three O' class men; Normanby Town Board, six B and -six O class men; Hawera Main School Committee, two C class men; T.uraturu and Tawhiti School Committees, one C class man each; Whakamara School Committee and Okaiawa and' Manutahi Cemetery Boards, one B class man each.

Mr J. A. Hyndmaii, publicity guide, for the Osaka Shosen Kaisha Cbm-1 pany, of Osaka, Japan, in the course! of an interview in Christchurch, ex-j pressed 1 the opinion that Japan had an almost unrivalled market for New i Zealand’s primary products. “I understand,” he said, “that during the. present season .Japan has forced the price of wool up at least Id l per lb by her buying. I know personally that since our ships started coming here! 18 months ago we have had difficulty in providing enough space for the wool going from New Zealand and Au.st.ra-1 lia.” Return freights, he said, were I required. At present they had very little. From Japan to New Zealand they carried 1 an average of about 600 tons a. month, which was not much ofa cargo for a GOOO-ton vessel .such a.sthey had to provide to carry the wool back. That 600 tons had heen worked up from nothing within- the last year and they hoped to develop it further. “•Our contention is this,” lie continued, “that if wool, hides and tallow —and there are wonderful * prospects for developing the tallow trade between this Dominion and Japan—are bought by Japan from New Zealand, then New Zealand mu.st give JapGne.se products a fair chance. Above all, she must place no barrier against the importation of goods made in Japan from the Dominion’s own. .products. For your primary products. Japan is one of the leading markets in the world. At last year’s wool sales in Australia she purchased: very nearly JO ner cent of the total clip, and at the last Wellington wool sale she bought so large a percentage of the offering that brokers have, told me the price was forced up by Id per lb.”