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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 112, 9 February 1928, Page 13

A well-known firm of fruit canners in Dunedin points out that fruitgrowers who line cases with paper show considerable ignorance of their trade (says the "Otago Daily Tinies”). A fruit case is made with battens to allow of some circulation of air through the case. When this is blocked with paper tlie fruit goes bad in about half the time it would take if there were no paper lining. A Waitotara farmer is getting big hauls of eels at present, which he converts into food for his poultry (says an exchange). One of his creeks has gone practically dry and the eels congregate in large numbers in what few pools there are and can be easily caught. The farmer states that it is interesting at night time to see the tunas travelling up the drv bed of the creek migrating further on iu quest of water. The first sheet of paper is said to have been made from the bark of a mulberrv tree in 75 A.D.