FAIR EXCHANGE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 337, 26 September 1932, Page 7

FAIR EXCHANGE

PROBLEM SOLVED UNEMPLOYED MAN AND FARMERS RlBSORT TO BARTER. PIGS EXCHANGED FOR SUITS. . Sydney, Saturday. itiggr, for tea, potatoes for shoes, pigs for a suit, are heing . bartered by fat'hiers in Ob'eron district. An unemplo'yed traveller from Enfield recently went hawking in the district belween Bathurst and Jenolan Caves. I-Ie found the farmers had no roady eash and that most wero in debt to the local storekeepers. Howsver, the.y were willing and sager to barter their products for elothing and food nepessitites. , He hurried back to the city by rhotor truck ahd after stocking up with cheap clothifig, boots, shoes , tea and crockery, returned to the district. For Gross of Eggs. For a bag of seed potatoes he bartered five pounds of tea, for 25 dozeii Cggs he gave a pair of boots and for a gross of eggs, two pairs of stoclc- ! ings. I A suit of clothing brought him five pigs, and a cheap frock another pig. For two heifers he exchanged a quantity of undirclothing and a woman's hat. He sent some of the produce to Sydney and sold more of it direet to suburban retailers. His latest trade was an old ear for 50 pigs and five heifers. He has fouhd a ready market -for the stock in Bathurst.