Page 4 Advertisements Column 7

Taranaki Daily News, 4 November 1915, Page 4

A rather sensational report is current in Wellington regarding the internment of a man who has heen in receipt of Government pay, and who is now alleged to have strong German sympathies. An organisation in England, called the Rural League, has inaugurated a sche for reviving and developing small iml_. tries and home crafts in" the villages, The main idea is to replace the great variety of small artieles which have been imported from Germany, Austria, and Hungary, to the value' of ten inillio" pounds per annum, and, at the san time, to employ the spare time of the rural population, and increase their earnings. The comparatively low wages of farm labourers is attributed mair'to the large amount of broken U through bad weather, and to the short day in the winter, and there are nuiiy small industries which mu bo Jull„we'd on wet days and at ni:>ht