DISTURBING FACTOR
IN AUSTRALIAN WAR INDUSTRY. HIGH PRICES FOR RABBIT SKINS. (Special Australian Correspondent.) SYDNEY, August 2. The high monetary return from the sale of rabbit skins is reported to be One of the main causes of absenteeism in Australian country factories and on farms. Manpower officials declare that food production and war industries have been penalised because key men have taken periods of several days off to make money from rabbiting, attracted by the unusually high prices for skins. Experienced trappers are said to be making more than £4O a week, and in spite of the manpower shortage in the rural areas more rabbit skins are being marketed in Sydney now than before the war. Last week’s price reached 15s 2d. per lb. This price was exceeded after the last war, but the general average of prices this year is believed to be an all-time record. The huge demands for rabbit skins for service men's clothing, particularly hats, have made them one of Australia’s main exports. The total exports for 1943 are expected to be more-than 10,000,0001 b. The Commonwealth Government receives a large revenue from its rabbit skin export tax of Is 6d per lb., which was imposed recently.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 August 1943, Page 3
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201DISTURBING FACTOR Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 August 1943, Page 3
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