THE "GOOD ENDEAVOUR" LEAGUE

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 65, 20 December 1946, Page 6

THE "GOOD ENDEAVOUR" LEAGUE

What ho, what ho, ma hearties. Well, we’ve come to the last page of the year once again. Scuttle my strakes it doesn’t seem 12 months since the last time I was writing a letter to you with the same message, but still, I suppose it must be. Butch, Butinslcy, Peterkin and I are all settling down for the Christmas holidays, and we intend to have the j oiliest time we have ever had. We have a big iced cake in the cupboard with a sprig of holly on top, and we are all looking forward very much to cutting it at Christmas. In the meantime, I have to keep a very sharp weather eye on Butch, who seems to have designs on having a piece or two beforehand. Yes sailors, Christmas is in the air, and we all feel very happy and gay. In a fortnight or so we will be off to the Antarctic in a submarine, as I mentioned to you some time ago, and we are looking forward to the experience. And till we return once again, the three pets and I join in wishing you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, and lots of fun for the holidays. Cheerio. P.T.W. DOUBLING THE FISH HARVEST A rod and line, with a grasshopper for bait, used to be the only apparatus of the African fishermen on the shores of Lake Baringo in

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Kenya. But during the war the British Fishery Control Officer from Kisumu on Lake Victoria came to the Baringo people to show them how to turn their fishing into a large scale industry by using nets. The District Clerk began by training two Africans in the making of Seine fishing nets from binder twine. These nets are 400 feet long and 5 feet wide, with a 3 £ -inch mesh. The net-makers have never had a minute to spare, and, with their productions, the Baringo fishermen have been catching as many as 27,000 fish a month, instead of 10,000 as in the old days. The fish caught in Lake Baringo find good markets locally.. Moreover, special smoke-ovens have been built to “kipper” some of the catch. These smoked fish go in monthly consignments to the markets in Nairobi, nearly 200 miles away.