FUR SWINDLERS.

Hokitika Guardian, 20 May 1924, Page 4

FUR SWINDLERS.

I.OXDOX, March 0. ."The lur trade is one of Britain's gloat industries, and our imports am! exports are the largest in the world.” writes .Mr .!. Morris, secretary ol tlie British K»r Trade Alliance, of Queen Vi< tuna-street. r..C. "l.ondon is the fur centre of the world, and merchants collie from every rpmi-ter of the globe to liny and 'ell furs in Knglnnd. • Naturally this great fur business could not have been Intilt ainl maintain'd on highly speculative methods. Canada became British through the trading in furs of the most famous firm in the fur trade—namely, the Hudson’s Bay Company. Lately certain undesirables have crept into the trade, and it is tlie operations of these individuals which have come to notice and tended to bring discredit to our trade.

"Silver fox skins, as a rule, tire very valuable. Market prices, however, range from a few pounds to several hundreds of pounds. "There is no question of real or unreal furs. All goods advertised as furs are actual skins of animals, whether they be rabbit skins or silver fox skins. What people must mint'd against is paying high prices for cheap furs which are prepared as imitations of skins of more expensive kinds of animals. When the public want to buy furs of a particular kind of animal they will be well advised to see that they are not foisted with an imitation of the genuine article.”

pital for Incurables, Strentham, S.M., Miss Rebecca "Winter, of Cnriton-street, Poplar, K., has died of tuberculosis at the age of 05. “The disease was arrested, and remained for many years stationary,” said an official of the home yesterday. “While it is exceptional for us to have a pensioner on our book's for o2 years, it is not a record. Neither is Miss Winter’s age a record, for we have a pensioner living at Brixton who is OS.” In the home the oldest patient is 02. The pensioners are incurable eases who are assisted so that they can live at homo without being quite dependent on relatives.