MONEY FROM BEACHES

Taranaki Daily News, 12 September 1930, Page 2

MONEY FROM BEACHES

UNEMPLOYED INITIATIVE. A SELF-MADE OPENING. Adversity has bred initiative in at least one of .Auckland’s aviuj’’ of unemployed. Finding nobody who would hire ha/ labour, he'turned’hie attention to a natural resource, Hie ocean bench, ami is now engaged in Hie profitable occupation of bagging pipits from an unlimited clippie on’ Hie benches of the I'aromande) Peninsula, mid retailing Humi in Auckland at. tin a sugerhag-full. This man's scheme is, cays Hie New Zealand Herald, an old idea adapted to a new avenue. During the difficult times of -HI years ago self-reliant men, unable to .secure w;ork in the usual ave-. nites of unemployment, sought the. gumliehlis in Hie vicinity-of Henderson. The, oiJjioi'lmiitieis in that direction are much more restricted to-day, hut there arc ether openings for the unemployed who are ready to help theunselves. Tlie caving of grass seed, particularly cocksfoot, hist year provided several enterprising men with an income that wms there for the taking. The ceason is once more approaching, but it remains to be ocen whether it will be fully availed of or whether thousands of pounds worth of seed will be allowed to waste. Last year one authority stated that he estimated the value of Hie cocksfoot seed that was allowed to go ■to waste in New Zealand each year was about £250,600, while on the other hand the Dominion imported £70,000 worth of seed, not nearly go good in quality, from Holland each year, Au energetic man with a sharp hook shoukl be able to make good money from many odd corners during November and Dcccmbet-