The whitebait season is commencing Foxton, and the river is now lined with fishers. So far it is scarce, but the Maoris prophecy a Big' yeth' for inanga, and many King Country Natives have come dowri and are camped on the river bank. Ono day. last week a boy of 14 struck a patch and got 461 b of whitebait in 40 minutes, for which he got Is 4d per lb. . In reporting on dearth of domestics, Miss Mcxrison, officer .in charge, at Auckland, says the position, is yearly .becoming more and says domestic employment can only bit made attractive by an improvement
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Otago Witness, Issue 2997, 23 August 1911, Page 51
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