FASHIONS CHANGE
AN INDUSTRY RUINED PEARL-SHELL TRADE Press Association WELLINGTON, To-day. Judge H. F. Ayson, Resident Commissioner of the Cook Islands, lias just completed a three months’ cruise. On a tour of inspection at Palmerston Island he found that the coco-nut trees damaged in the hurricane of 1914 were coming into bearing again, and at Suwarrow Island the pearl shell and pipi pearl trade received attention. The bottom has fallen out of the first industry, owing to the situation in Europe, and the decreasing use of pearl buttons. Money was still being earned for the latter, but the demand was not keen. Regulations are made to confine diving to limited periods, and tests are to be made with machines in deep water beyond ordinary divers’ reach.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 18, 12 April 1927, Page 8
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126FASHIONS CHANGE Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 18, 12 April 1927, Page 8
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