THE "GOOD ENDEAVOUR" LEAGUE FOR YOUNG READERS ONLY Aboard for the Goodwill Cruise
What ho, Avhat ho, mti hearties. And how do I find von all this weelc. I am 'having a splendid, time gathering aegar. What, you've never heard of it? Well it's a kind of seaweed that they make iodine from. Yes, we. have found, that, the New Zealand aegar is as good if not bet-' ter than that which used to come from Japan. Now the Government has 1 * given mc a job and every dajy, down I go to the seashore and collect. the weed which has drifted upj I have nearly seven hundredweight of it now and soon I will be sending it on to Wellington where they will stew it, work it and crush it' ready for the* extraction of the pre<cious medical tincture. Now I jnualt. get on to my mail. I see its quite a large one again. Cheerio till next week. A *
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 65, 16 April 1943, Page 6
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161THE "GOOD ENDEAVOUR" LEAGUE FOR YOUNG READERS ONLY Aboard for the Goodwill Cruise Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 65, 16 April 1943, Page 6
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