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Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20225, 1 May 1931, Page 11

At a meetifig of the Ofcago Provincial Council of the New Zealand Farmers' Union, Mr James Howell, of Middlettiarch, brought up tite aijestidft of the traftspdffc attd dther charges iaipoefed on fafmert. fie laid he had sent som6 woftl to a S&le in Ihinedin, and when he had received his cheque for the sale he fotihd his receipts had been reduced by 22 per cent., this representing the various costs imposed on the wool from the time it left the station at MiddleBSftrch. Another member of the executive expressed the opinion that Mr Howell was fortunate to get any cheqne at all. Many amateur photographers have wished at times that eotllA climb to aft elevated vantage point to Map & scene over crowde, tall fences, or othdr obstructions. A Gdntian invention, a portable "stilt" for the camera, makes such photographs easy. A telescoping pole with a tripod aerew at one end to hold the c&taera and a foot rest at the other to steady it holds the camera aloft while the photographer dpOrates it from the ground. One model, designed especially for amateurß, is disguised a walkiA? sane. A profeasiofial model haft H 6 Mel) refinement) bat additional sections give & ffre»t«r height,