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New Zealand Herald, Volume 80, Issue 24758, 4 December 1943, Page 6

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AGREEMENT REACHED SCHEDULE FOR SEASON (P.A.) WELLINGTON. Friday . The Minister of Agriculture, the Hon. B. Roberts, announced to-night that £jn agreement had been reached between the Government and the r>«ew Zealand Meat Producers' Board on the opening schedule for wether and ewe mutton, prime ox and heifer beef, ihe schedule was as follows: — Mutton—Wethers (prime), 481b. and under, 5Jd; 491b. to 061b., 4fd; 571b. to 641b., 4id; 651b. to 721b., 4id; 731b. to 801b., 2id. Wethers (seconds), 561b. and under, 4£d; 571b. to 7Jb., 4id Ewes, 641b. and under, 3Jd; 6olb. to 721b., 2Jd; 731b. to 801b., lid. Beef—Prime ox, all weights, 34s per 1001b.; prime heifer, all weights, 335; ox, second quality, all weights, 295; heifer, second quality, all weights, 28s; cow, first quality. 27s 6d; boner, all classes, 20s. The schedules will operate for the whole of the season, and will be retrospeotive in respect of stock already killed. AMERICAN LIBRARY LOCATION IN WELLINGTON SPECIAL REFERENCE CENTRE (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Friday Five United States libraries are to be established in other countries by the British Division of the Office of War Information in close co-operation with the Division of Cultural * Relations of the Department of State and with the Library »of Congress and one of them is to be in "Wellington. Miss Mary Parsons, who is to be in charge of the library in this country, and her assistant. Miss Doris Kavanagh, have already arrived in Wellington to assist with its establishment. The library will follow the pattern of the American library in the Embassy, London. Other libraries will be located in Sydney, Melbourne,' Johannesburg and Bombay. The American library in London and the five new libraries are designed to serve writers, the press, radio, American missions, local government agencies and educational, scientific and cultural institutions and organisations. They will not be lending libraries for casual readers, but small, highly selective libraries containing reference material produced in the United States. Each library will be staffed by two librarians from the United States and three associates engaged locally. APPEAL FOR DOCTOR MEDICAL SCHOOL CASE (P.A.) DUNEDIN, Friday The appeal by the University of Otago against the granting of permission to Dr. J. O. Lopdell, a member of the teaching staff at the Medical School, to accept a position with the Health Department in Western Samoa was upheld by the Manpower Committee. The university based its case on the shortage of doctors, as it affected staffing at the Medical School and also the large increase in the number of students. PRICE OF CABBAGES WHOLESALERS' STATEMENT A denial that it was the practice of wholesale merchants to destroy cabbages or any othtT vegetables was made in a statement issued by the Auckland Fruit and Produce Merchants and Auctioneers' Association yesterday. It was stated that lines which were unsaleable were either given to philanthropic organisations or used for stock feed. The necessity for such action seldom arose. The association added that it dissociated itself from the criticism of retail prices. The statement that the armed forces were being charged high prices for cabbage of similar quality to lines which were practically unsaleable was characterised by members of the association as quite untrue. VIEW OF RETAILERS NEW MAXIMUM RATE A statement regarding the price of cabbages was made yesterday by Mr. C. C. King, secretary of the Retail Fruit and Vegetable Association. Mr. King said that, although the regulation reducing the maximum retail price of cabbages from 3.} d to per 'lb. came into operation on December 1, the first auction under the new rates was not held until Thursday. At the previous auction on Monday retailers had bad to pay the maximum wholesale price of 19s per cwt., which was the ruling value for November. The new retail maximum price of 2id per lb. was in operation in all shops yesterday.

Air. King added that cabbages forwarded from the Internal Marketing Division, which sold for 8d a sack, were rejected by the tinned forces as not being up to standard. Thev were stale when offered for sale and any that were bought would be sold in the retail shops for Id to 2d each. No first-class fruiterer would handle them. COOK'S TOURIST FIRM Rumours that the well-known tourist and travel firm, Thos. Cook and Son, Limited, is giving up business in New Zealand were denied in an official statement made on the company's behalf vesterday. It explained that confusion had probably arisen in the public mind through the company, in conformity with the Companies Act, 1!TO. giving notice that its associate company of Thos. Cook and Son ■* (Bankers), Limited, would cease to have a place of business in the Dominion after December 31 next. This had no reference to the firm's activities as passenger travel agents and the business of foreign exchange, which would be continued m usual*