Greatest Dollar Earner.

Chronicle (Levin), 17 August 1949, Page 4

Greatest Dollar Earner.

Malaya, with iafge exports to the United States of Alnerica o^f rubber and tin, was" an even larger "dollar earner" than the United Kingdom, said Mr. R. B. Wiilmot, the new United Kingdom senior trade commissioner in New Zealand, in ah "interview last week. Mr. Wiilmot, who arrived in New Zealand in April, for the last 14 years held a similar post in Malaya. Mr. R. Boulter, who preceded Mr. Wiilmot in New Zealand, was trade' commissioner in Malaya before him. "Naturally Malaya is not allowed to use all the dollars she Carns," said Mr. Wiilmot, "Tney go into the. dollar pool. If she did there' would be none for anyone else." He Knows His Chaff. A witness had a joke at the expense _ of Mr. A. A. McLachlan, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court at Palmerston North yesterday, but did not know tlje oause of the mirth in Court, Witness was commenting on the eosfc of feeding a trotting horse arid his re'marks were punctuated by surprise. of the Magistrate. Witness said he paid 31s for a sack of chaff and his Worship, who has a farm on the West Coast, said: "Oh! ^Tou wouldn 't find old heads paying that much, You w5re^ caught." Witness innoeently remarked: "But it was South Island chaff, sir." After the laughter had died down Mr. McLachlan told witness with a smile: "It may have been from the South Lsland but it works out at about £30 a ton., I've seen some pretty good chaff but it wouldn't have brought that much. That's the stuff they pay we 'cockies' £4 oi; £5 a toii for." !