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Taranaki Daily News, 13 March 1920, Page 5

The Prime Minister made refere' on .Saturday to tlie controversy as whether Australian boot manufactQl are importing New Zealand hh manufacturing boots therefrom, send the boots to New Zealand and unc selling our local boot manufacture Mr. Massey stated that the figure* had used in connection with the »JJ fii hides to Australia, and tho impol tion of boots from there, were from official records of tho Customs Dejx inent. He was convinced that -t were right. What they proved i that there is a very large imported to this country of boots made from 1 thcr tanned in Australia, and pdssl coming (though this was very diffi( to prove) from hides exported from i country to the Commonwealth, Colonel Porter, in his address to ' Palmerston North Philosophical Socif mentioned a very interesting circi stance. When young and adventun he secretly visited "To Anga onga % rua," the cave of departed spirits, wi he saw the gun which had own j sented by Captain Cook to a Nal chief. It had been deposited with chief's tatooed head in this sacrophr of the dead. Years later when vis! London he saw and recognised this ' head in a private collection. The red cave had evidently been rifled