BOBBY CALF POOL

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 72, Issue 6239, 7 June 1946, Page 4

BOBBY CALF POOL

MEETING OF TE AWAMUTU COMMITTEE POSITION OF COMPULSORY LEVY Mr B. C. O’Connor presided at a meeting of the above yesterday when the following were present: Messrs A. E. Bryant, W. Perrin, W. G. Parker, G. L. Daniel, C. J. Flay, S. H. West, J. Rea, A. R. Weal, J. E. Hammond and P. F. Southernwood. Apologies were received from Messrs M. A. Tuck and A. S- Wyllie. The resignation of Mr E. Hopping was received and members expressed their appreciation of his valuable support. Mr W. R. Burton was nominated as his successor. Messrs Heron and Buckett representing the Waipa Carriers’ Association, conferred with the Pool Committee in connection with the cartage position for the coming season. At the conclusion the chairman paid a tribute to the excellent manmer in which the association had cooperated during the season with the committee in ironing out difficulties. Mr O’Connor reported that the penny compulsory levy was being discontinued and the whole of the local tanners’ requirements of 200,000 skins was being subsidised out of the Consolidated Fund and not by the Calf Pools. He said that a happy feature of this was that local calf skins had eliminated the importation of foreign skins. The cost of the imported article was almost £25,000 at one period.