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Otago Daily Times, Issue 17427, 23 September 1918, Page 6

PERSONAL

lbe (lag was flown at half-mast on tho Town Hall on Saturday out of resoect to tho memory cf Mr Fred Reynolds, who died at the_ Dunedin Hospital on Friday night, aged 31. Tho deceased had been" for tho past 11 years engaged on the stuff of the town clerk at Dunedin, where ho was a most popular and capable ofriccr. Ho had suffered very indifferent health, and at tho beginning of the present month entered the hospital, where a fortnight ago he underwent an operation for kidney trouble. He leaves a wife and one child. Tha death took place in Auckland on Sunday week of Lady Osborne Gibbes, at the age of SO years. She was 1 the widow of the' late Sir Samuel Osborne Gibbes. Bart., and the mother of Sir Edward Osborne Gibbes, of Wellington, late Secretary for Education. Sir Samuel and Lady Gibbes arrived in New Zealand in the early days, and settled at Whangarei. Corporal F. A. Vlckerman, who is included amongst those who died at sea of influenza on tho striekon troopship, was a pupil of tho Waitaki Boys' Iligh School, whore ho built for himself a good scholastic and athletic record. He joined Messrs Dalgoty and Co.'s Auckland branch and became manager of the produce department, but after a few years relinquished hie position to become manager of the Portland Cement Company at Auckland.

THE RABBITSKIN TRADE. TO THE EDITOH. Sir, —It has been the custom to hold fortnightly auction sales of rabbitskins in Dunedin; but owing to the shipping troubles there have been no sales for sis weeks. I think it is high time the Government took control of this trade. It is not fair to the rabbiter that he should have to wait two or three months for his cheque. There is also the question of tho decline in prices. So far this season the highest prico at these sales has been 60 odd pence per lb; last season at Home the prices went over 120 pence per lb. 1 think the Government should stop in and do away with the middleman, as ho is practically a parasite on the rabbiter. Tho Government appoints rabbit inspectors to put down the pest;, why not assist those who are putting down the pest? If we got a 6et price for our skins and cash on the marK, I think the rabbiter would be satisfied, instead 'of being humbugged by the middleman. There is a sale on the 24th inst. This will bo a sale of the best skins of the season; but poor prices are expected. Why? Because these middlemen control the market. —I am, ctc., Rabbithb.' Glenorchy, September 17. NAZOL is known everywhere as tho rcady-for-uso and money-saving remedy for coughs and colds. Sixty doses Is fed.