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Northern Advocate, 27 September 1919, Page 1

Lord Burnham, of the London "Daily Telegraph," in responding, to the toast of his health at the British Newspaper conference. dinner in London recently, said that ho was nothing if he was not a pressman. He had been weaned on printers' ink, and his family owed everything to the profession of journalism. He did jiot wish for a better place than Fleet Street. It was a most interesting world to live in, and one had nothing to regret, but had every reason to rejoice, that by destiny, as well as by choice, his lot had been thrown into newspaper land. The position of the papers was so strong that never in the future would Governments fail" ; to recognise their importance or attempt to interfere with their freedom and liberty.

A week ago Wangpnui's new dredge the Kaione took her first: New Zealand breakfast. At the very outset the "Kaione" proved herself a glutton. Her table manners are more effective than elegant. Scarcely had she turned her nose down-stream ere she began to swallow her grimy "porridge" at tho rate of tons per minute, and within a quarter of an hour she was headed for the . ocean, there to disgorge the best part of eight hundred tons of sand and silt. No, the " Kaione's" table manners are not by any means fastidious. Sl."e doesn't even stop to clean her teeth 'twixt meals. No sooner has she disgorged than she hastens to gorge again, and her mechanical constitution is such that good digestion has no chance to wait on appetite.

From the Fisheries Commission report the following is abstracted:—At tho present time between 10 and 20 tons of fish-offal is every week taken out to sea from the city of Auckland and thrown overboard. This is not only a source of expense, bu| is a serious waste of valuable material from which both fish-oil and fish-manure could be manufactured. If the offal were converted into these articles so that it became of value instead of a matter of expense it would have a considerable effect in cheapening fish. Furthermore, it would have other advantages, as the, products would be of great value to the community. It is essential in order to obtain the full benefit from this industry that tho manure produced should reach a proper, standard of quality. In order to encourage its production wo beg to recommend that the Government offer a bonus of £500 for the production of the first 500 tons of fish-manuro reaching the requisite standard of quality."