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Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 378, 6 August 1903, Page 5

In lectures addressed to working men at Dunedin last Sunday oa " Why men do not go to church T the reply was practicially .that churches had nothing to offer them, churches having acquiesced with the world's standard of conduct respecting wealth and private property. A writer in a home journal designate 9 the tin-can food as a "fiend " He remarks "Neither Krupp, nor Armstrong, nor the ingenious Yankee ever invented a missile half so deadly all the tin-can. tt has been estimated that during the Gobien era no 'oss than 20,000 deaths have been oaused by some sort of poisoning through eating something out of a can. I was in San Francisco U.S.A., some years ago, and while there, a local doctor stated in a public speech that 40 per cent, of the Chinese coolies employer) in the many canneries on the Pacific coast, were suffering from leprosy in varying stages.from slight to acute. I know as a fact .that the bulk of the output of these canneries was poured into the British market.and as far as lean understand, the same thing is still going on " ' -; Great Peppermint Oure, 1/$ and