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Taranaki Daily News, 10 July 1920, Page 10

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