Willow For Cricket Bats

Inangahua Times, 5 May 1934, Page 4

Willow For Cricket Bats

As a result of a young man’s fore sight and enterprise a new industry has hern established at Gera'dx e, Canterbury, and is making satisfactory progress. While visiting Mr John Scott, of Raukapuk*. Geraldine, Mr Dye, p member of an Australian manufacturing firm, examined some of the willow wood growing on the property. He advised Mr Scott to send a sample shipment to bis firm in Australia for experimental purposes in the manufacture pf cricket bats, at the same time giving instructions as to the preparation process necessary to give the wood the durability required for cricket bats. Since that time Mr Scott has shipped five consignments of split blocks, each block producing four or five bata. In all he haa shipped 250 blocks, the last shipment leaving a Jew days sgo.