QUEER CARGOES.
13 TONS OF DRIED FLIES. Thirteen tons of dried flies formed " part, of the cargo of a liner which arrived at Plymouth recently. They came from Mexico, and are to be used in the manufacture of paint. Dried flies are also imported from Brazil, but not for paint-making. 'These arc made up into food for poultry and pheasants. Besides all the ordinary necessaries which come pouring into Britain from abroad, there arrive fantastic goods. For instance a case of walrus whiskers—you might make many vain guesses as to the purpose to which these were to be turned before you were told that they are to be made into toothpicks. Frogs’ skins, again. Now and then a package of these comes from India, and they are used —of all things—for bookbinding. It appears that the skin of this Indian frog makes a very line soft leather, which, when dyed, takes the most delicate colours. A case of "diseases” brought io I Southampton from the west coast of Africa was actually .full of cultures of germs of black-water fever, malarial fevers, and all kinds of tropical diseases.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVI, Issue 4824, 18 March 1925, Page 4
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187QUEER CARGOES. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVI, Issue 4824, 18 March 1925, Page 4
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