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STAFF: APPOINTMENTS, TRANSFERS, ETC. 



(1) Agriculture. 



1/10/19 E. G. Hardy, Senior Dairy Inspector: Appointed Assistant Superin- 

 tendent of Dairying. 

 31/12/20 P. A. Steenekamp, Senior Sheep Inspector, retired. 



1/1/21 /. L. Coetzee, Senior Sheep Inspector, transferred from Gordonia 



to Aliwal North, vice P. A. Steenekamp. 

 1/1/21 P. L. Swart, Humansdorp, promoted Senior Sheep Inspector, 

 Gordonia, vice, J. L. Coetzee. 



(2) .Agricultural Education. 



30/11/20 A. C. Pigott, Farm Manager, Potchefstroom School, resigned. He 



is at present nianging his estates in Ireland. 

 31/12/20 S. H. Skaife, Entomologist, Cedara ; Resigned in order to accept 

 post of Inspector of Technical Education, Cape Province. 

 15/1/21 Miss E. Ferguson (returned Oversea Scholar), appointed Demonstra- 

 tor in Household Science, Elsenburg. 

 31/1/21 /. G. Boss, Research Chemist, Elsenburg: Resigned in order to 

 accept the Professorship of Chemistry, Transvaal University 

 College. 



MOVEMENTS OF OFFICERS. 



Rfr. Theo. Potgieter, of the Orange Free State Education Department, is 

 acting as Lecturer in Botany at Glen during 1921. 



Mr. V. A. Beckley, who has been studying at Cambridge, England, as a 

 Government Oversea Scholar, has returned, and is to be appointed as Lecturer 

 in Chemistry at Grootfontein, vice Mr. I. P. J. du Plessis, transferred to an 

 analogous post at Glen. 



Mr. G. van Foreest, Live Stock Officer, has engagements at Smithfield, 

 14th-17th February, and Dewetsdorp, 21st-26th February. 



THE OVERSEA MARKET. 



Cabled Advices from London during the Month of 

 December, 1920. 



Maize (1st). — December-January shipments, African white flat, afloat, 

 sellers, /i7s. 6d. (4bh) White flat, afloat, 57s., sellers; yellow, November- 

 December shipments, 53s., sellers; loading, 54s. 9d. paid; No. 2 Rhodesian 

 December, steamer, 58s. 6d. quoted. (7th) White flat, afloat, second grade 

 sold at 56s. paid, and third grades 55s. paid; yellow December-January ship- 

 ments were quoted at 54s. 6cl. (11th) Yellow African maize, afloat, sold at 

 56s. 6d. paid; Rhodesian maize, December shipment 61s. was quoted. (24th) 

 White flat December shipment, 57s. ; yellow, 54s., sellers. (4th January) South 

 African white flat, afloat, 56s. ; parcels of yellow, December-January shipments, 

 52s. sellers: La Plata, January-February shipments, 50s. 6d. paid. 



Wool — 4200 Bales of South African wool offered at December auctions, and 

 1400 sold, but poor doraand. Greasy quality declined 20 per cent., snow- 

 whites 25 per cent. Present current prices are as follows: Snow-whites, extra 

 superior, 2s. 9d. to 3s.; superior, 2s. to 2s. 8d. ; medium. Is. 7d. to Is. lid.; 

 inferior. Is. 3d. to Is. 6d. ; greasy combing, long, 9^d. to Is. 6d. ; medium, 

 8d. to Is. Id.; clothing, light, 8d. to Is.; heavy, 5d. to 7d. 



