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Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4500, 4 September 1930, Page 1

.Camels do not supply camel hair. That, information was {fathered by members of the economies committee oif the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce on the occasion of a visit to a brush factory. The hair came from, squirrels’ tails, it was explained, and the name was derived from Camel; the man who first dressed the hair for use. In the number of its practising -barristers 'and solicitors, Christchurch had reached saturation point, a Sun reporter was told in an -authoritative source the other day. The town was now as fully equipped with legal men and legal firms as its demands were likely to require for some years to come, and in the past 12 months particularly ■several -of the less well established businesses had been forced to give up. These were men who had been on their own, and had been unable to secure- enough business to keep going.