NEWS AND NOTES

Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4520, 21 October 1930, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES

A curious accident occurred to Mr. A. McLennan, of Maungakaramea, when playing in a Rugby football match between Whangarei and Hokianga at Kohukolni. Mr. McLennan received an accidental kick on .the temple and from then on lie lost his memory. Tie even had no knowledge that he was -playing football. It was not until he arrived back at the hotel that he recovered his memory.

“As the result of tests which have proved that New Zealand sole leather now compares more than favourably in quality with the imported article following upon the adoption of scientific control of the tanning processes, it is pleasing to note that the output of the local tanneries is increasing;,” remarks the quarterly report of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research. This activity is further reflected in the boot manufacturing industry which is using an increased proportion of New Zealand produced leather.

There is money in eels, according lo one Talnina 'Maori, who states Hint he finds a ready market for them among the Rotorua Maoris, who pay 9d for a small eel and ns much ns l-2/(> for mi extra big one. Recently lie sold -98 eels for .CD, and the next week sold 220 for £2B. He lias an order for 400 which he hopes lo sell at an equally profitable rate.. Eels are said to lie in short supply at Rotorua, whereas there are innumerable eels iii the Pinko and Waitoa rivers. This .Maori eel-merchant spears i hem in a bend iu the Waitoa river which was cut off when the river was straightened -and into which the eels pass when the tide backs the 'water up.

•Designed lo check the operation of stock thieves, the Stock Amendment Bill, passed bv the House of Representatives, give effect more or less to remits passed by farmers’ organisations in recent years. The 'Bill provides that anyone moving stock between half an hour after sunset and half an hour before sunrise must obtain a- permit to do so, exceptioirs being a person driving stock oa? his own land, or from public saleyards, and not more than six miles from his own homestead, while a farmer with two properties can move stock from one to the other without resl fiction ipro-vided the distance does not exceed six miles.