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Putaruru Press, Volume IV, Issue 157, 4 November 1926, Page 5

I Years ago I sometimes used to see as many as four or five dray loads of eels being taken from round about there by the Maoris,” said Mr. H. M. Campbell, M.P., when speaking of Poukawa Lake at Hastings, “ But nowadays,” he added, “ you won’t see a* hundred eels in a year. Pishing used to be an art among the Maoris at one time, but they do nothing in that way now. It is a lost art. You couldn’t even find a Maori to make an eel basket if you wanted one.”— Hawke’s Bay exchange. “ The day will not be long delayed when sunlight will enter into all our town-planning schemes. In dwellings, schools and public buildings we shall see more windows and fewer bricks,” said Dr. W. E. Herbert in addressing the Rotarv Club at Wellington on “ Health Week.” The windows, he added, would be of a quality to allow the penetration of health-giving ultra-violet rays. “ Then, too, 1 hope.” said the doctor, “ the Daylight Paving B'll will be adopted entirely as a health measure, and we shall be saved from the disgrace of tacitly maintaining that anything to improve the peonle’s health shall not interfere with industry.”