SEA SHELLS AND FOWL GRIT.
The shell banks up to and beyond high water mark at the local seaside are fast disappearing. The shells are gathered, cleaned, crushed and put to commercial use as fowl grit. Our representative watched the process of shell-gathering and sifting at the seaside yesterday by Mr Woodbam and bis staff. A light horse-drawn carriage upon which is constructed a moveable cradle, is drawn up to the windward of the shells, previously raked into heaps. The shells are shovelled into the cradle or seive and separated from sand, etc., and bagged. The a are <hen carted to Foxton and crushed for fowl grit. Mr Woodbam lias forwarded tons of grit to various merchants in different parts ol the dominion. Up to recently, lie informed us, lie paid no royalty on the shells, but since last year the Marine Department imposed a royalty on each ton of grit sold. Mi Woodbam said, owing to bad iveather conditions at the beacli last year, lie ivas unable to gather sufficient shells to meet the demand for grit.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2685, 19 January 1924, Page 3
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178SEA SHELLS AND FOWL GRIT. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2685, 19 January 1924, Page 3
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