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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5138, 13 June 1927, Page 3

Surrounded by labour-saving devices and convenience we are. apt to forget altogether the “grand old men and women" of another ago. who came to Otago to found a home with nothing to -help them but their sturdy hands and indomitable wills (says the Otago Daily Times). There were days, though we so easily forget them, when everything was done and made by hand, and the execution wgs of the finest. Clothing and food and shelter were all alike wrested from the soil and f ashioned with painstaking care by methods to-day called crude and primitive. But the food was of the best, the clothing warm and reliable, and the shelter fit to weather the wildest storm. And there are still those who refuse to cast off the habits of diligence learnt so long ago. One of these is Mrs Allan, senr. now in her 84th year, of Pukerau, who exhibited at the show recently an article of clothing which should serve as an object lesson in diligence and thoroughness to the rising generation. The exhibit in question consisted of a pair of socks beautifully knitted by Mrs Allan herself from wool grown on her own farm and spun and dyed with her own hands. The dye was procured ■rem flax on the exhibitors p-opevty Had we a few more of Mrs Allan’;) type the ratio of our exports to our imports would quickly be reversed.