Himalayan Times (1952)

March 23, 1052

?r;.mnhttiim (Times

Three

TIBET WOOL LOL LLISSIA

Revival Of Wool Trade In View

Kalimpong,

The Tibetan Trade
T)*d»*gation which was in
Calcutta since the 11th
of this in n'h busy nego-
tiating the wool deal with
buyers other than the
U S. A -which till recently
was the chief buyer of
Tibetan wool.-through the
Chinese Counsel in Calcutta
has returned here yesterday.

A general meeting of
the Tibetan Traders’ Asso-
ciation was held here to
day at the office of Mr.

L. Y. Pangda Tshang. the
president of the Associat ion
at 2 P. M, where the
delegates inf* lined the
members present-about one
hundred in all—that the
negotiations have been a
complete success and that
Russia has agreed to take
Tibetan wool if the quality
is approved by the wool
traders and manufacturers
there. They further infer-
Amed the members that
their new buyers had sent
a special officer from
Moscow to conduct the
negotiation and that ho
has gone back to Moscow
with samples of wool to
get the quality and the
price approved by experts
there, other terms and
conditions of the business
having b en fully agreed
upon in Calcutta.

March 22

'the news has been well
received in Kalimpong and
Tibetan merchants whose stock
of wool at Kalimpong exceed
fifty thousand mnunds have
decided to cling to t! eir stock
il l a reply is ro cived from
Moscow which w 11 not take
Very long.

The members present in the
meeting expressed tli^k^gratitude
to the members of the delega-
tion for conducting the deal in
th *ir best interest In absence
of their permanent president
Mr. I'angdu Tslmng who has
been urgently recalled in Tibet,
the vice-president of the Asso-
ciation Mr. T. C. Livang presi-
ded over the meeting today.

In an exclusive interview
to our reprint etivc a spokes-
man of the Association said
that since the rec lit a hoi tion
by th»» (Tovernnitnt of India
of the 30% -s ort duty on i
Tibetan wool enquiries have/
been received f r Tile-tan wodl
from moi'diants in Japan, Ger-
manv .and even I . S. A. but
no deal has been finalised with
any one. He further said that j
t.iie present negotiation has been f
ui t e on behalf of the Tibetan
Wool Traders and on being
aski <1 ns to what will be the
-mi e of the wool going >

ftv.ssia be replied “ Obvious'
through India because for the
present we are concerned with
t he stock that is lying at
Kalimpong. The fate of new
e’ini ings in Tibet will bo decided
later.’*

The Tibet an Traders’ Asso-
ciation has a membership strength
of three hundred persons &
has sound finance and a cap.-ble
executive committee.

Dr. B. K. Bhattacharya
. Transferred
Kalimpong, March 20
Sri B.B. Mandal,i.A.s.,
s.d c. T^mluk is coming
to Kalitnjlrmg to take over
as Sub-Divisional Officer in
place of Dr. B. K Bhatta-
charya, m.A'./d iitt., P.R.S.,
ias. who has been trans-
fetr^d to Nadia as A.D.M.

Dr. Bhattacharya is
awaiting arrival of his
successor in office here.
Prime Minister’s Propose^
Visit to Kalimpong
Postponed

Kalimpong, Mar. 20.
The proposed visit of
Prime Minister Nehru to
Kalimpong has been post-
poned for some time, it
is learnt here.

HANK OF CHINA

Branch Opened at Lhasa

Peking ra io announ-
ced on March 13 that
the Bank of China had
officially opened a branch
in Lhasa, the capital of
Tibet.

WOMAN KILLS A
MAN

(From Our Correspondent) .

Kurseong, Mar. 20.
A sensational murder
has been reported from
Tindharia in which a
woman has killed a man.
The woman has been
arrested and kept in police
custody at Kurseong. The
incident took place on
March IT. Further details
are lacking.