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Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3517, 1 July 1920, Page 7

W@W @M lain Street • Taihape

There are people who are prepared fo scoff at the possibilities of handspinning and hand-weaving. That is merely because they do not know what they are talking about (says the Melbourne Age). A striking illustratoin of the possibilities of hand-spin-ning was recently quoted by Mr Weaver, a member of the. Victorian Parliament. During the war. he said, a lady in his electorate found that yarn for making socks for soldiers was practically unprocurable, and so she obtain a spinning-wheel and made her own yarn. The wool from one comeback sheep made 24 pairs of seeks, which, at 3/6 a pair, were valued ."' £4 4/. The value of the wool to the man who grew the sheep was only 10/ or 15/. Thar concrete example proves what can be done by people who are sufficiently enterprising to bran en out.

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