QUEER WAR TRADES.

Otaki Mail, Volume 26, 17 March 1919, Page 4

QUEER WAR TRADES.

LARGE PROFITS MADE. Some queer and profitable "trades have come into being since 1914. says a Loudon paper. Small fortunes appear to be made in the streets. Hawkers, fined for profiteering in matches, have been found with large sums in notes on their persons. A vendor of camphor in tho city, who used to stand on the kerb, has decided since the influenza epidemic to open a shop. There is a great market for the teeth of dogs iu these days. They have a commercial value that is not disclosed J>y the dealers, but there ia more than one firm in the c-ity making ft good thing out of these goods. Inquiries brought to light other unexpected trades, Dried eggs, were not greatly in demand before the war. A firm of pottery merchants started to import dried eggs from China as a side line. Now they are complaining of the iniquity of the super-tax, while the crockery is almost forgotten. There is a linn in the Midlands that carries ou a secret trade in "souvenirs" from France. It is privately owned, and does a big business in rings made from bullets, inkpots made from shells, and paper-weights made from •*--* flotsam and jetsam of : the battle*

iield. ... A hawker, who a _P«' T nut of bootlaces and pipe-ci.."' je " fore .the war. has retired on his profits made in the last three years in a different line of goods. He sold humorous pictures of Kaisers with trick moustaches. Hu owns a cottage in Surrey