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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2655, 29 December 1915, Page 5

In the course of his remarks at a Dunedin presentation in Ross and Glendining's warehouse to an employee of fifty years' standing, Mr. G. R.' Hercils spoke of the conditions under which goods were received and shipped at Dunedin in the early • days. Everything was quite primitive. Goods, from tho Old C-onntry wore dumped on to tho jetty from lighters, and there measured for the ono duty of ss. per foot. It was all the samo whether the contents were silk or calico; both paid the same, or practically so, though he remembered that tho charges in a case of Aberdeen socks caino to a bit'more than those 011 a £400 caso of silks. Those times, however, had their own difficulties. * It was a great favour to get the man in ..charge to send goods away, and ' the uncertainty as' to transit by cockle- ' shell coasters and wagons for the ulterior made a never-ending problem., for the paokors. Plurality of wives is mentioned as a possible after-consequence of the war. Evidently it is expected that tho dis!>ln.v of heroism will have become a ■