ROPE MADE FROM STRAW
A Yorkshire fanner recently found himself with a largo quantity of straw on hand after threshing. Deciding to make it into ropes, ho fitted up a barn with the necessary machinery, and employed four girls, who plaited the straw. The business is now yielding good profits; it is said to 1)6 the only one of its kind in Yorkshire, and, possibly, in Britain. For an alleged broach of the Factory Act in connection with his ropo business this enterprising man was summoned not long ago in a polico court, but it was claimed on his behalf that straw plaiting in a barn does not como under the Factory Act, but is really a_ branch of farming. The charge was dismissed on payment of costs.
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Evening Star, Issue 19388, 23 October 1926, Page 5
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128ROPE MADE FROM STRAW Evening Star, Issue 19388, 23 October 1926, Page 5
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