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Star (Christchurch), Issue 7417, 31 May 1902, Page 1

The -fishing rights of "the Tay. alone are said to yield their fortunate owners over £20,000 a year, while the yield of salmon has been estimated 'by some at the enorj mous sum of £60,000 each season. Every ! year the prices go up, and rentals which twenty yeaTs ago, say in 1880, were worth £300 to £500 a year axs now easily let at I three times those figures. ' Lancashire and Cheshire together apparently produce more sole leather than i any other' part of England. At a meeting of firms engaged in the industry, held recently in Manchester, it was stated that this district turns over each week leather of the value of £30,000, or one and a half million sterling a- year, . (besides importing hides valued at £40,000 a week, or. twomillions ar year ; and that practically the | whole of this vast and import-ant industry I is concentrated in or near Manchester.