Spider-Web
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Catching Fish by Spider-Web
4 QUEENSLAND resident is A amused by a report in a Bris bane newspaper, that a patrol officer out on small islands in the Xavieng area of New Guinea had made the discovery that natives there catch their fish in a peculiar way. Out over the water they fly a kite: from the kite there dangles a string; at the end of the string there is a bunch of spider-web, which skips over the waves. The fish snap at the spider web, and get their teeth tangled in it, and
thus are hauled in. Our friend says that this unique fishing method has been reported many times. The PIM described it first over 20 years ago.
Twenty-five members of the Armed Native Constabulary of Papua and New Guinea, under two European officers, Inspectors A. N.
Sinclair and W. M. Burns, arrived in Sydney from Port Moresby at Easter, and sailed a few days latei in the liner New Australia for Eng land, where they will take part in the Coronation celebrations in June Practically all the contingent wore service ribbons, but only a few ol the natives had previously bee® outside New Guinea.