An air of bewilderment was written large over the face of a farmer who called at the Otago Daily Times office on Tuesday afternoon. From one of his pockets he produced a receipt for 4s from a local firm of stock and station agents for the sale of a hide, and then put the poser to one of the reporters:—“lf I only get 4s for a whole hide, why am 1 compelled to pay £2 for a pair of boots?”
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Franklin Times, Volume 9, Issue 606, 8 February 1921, Page 7
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