An American paper boasts : —Heating “plants" for Japan, brewing plants for South Africa, power-house equipments for Australia, pulp mills for Finland and cotton gins for r,ussia are all “easy for American manufacturers. Besides feeding a good share of the world, we are thinking for it too. Someone in authority seems to be fear ful that grubs, snails, locusts, and insect life generally, will become extinct if active steps are not taken to prevent it. Therefore an Insect Protectorate, with headquarters at Parliament buildings, and a staff who will see to the welfare of everything that creeps, has been set up,— Lance,
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Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 490, 31 July 1902, Page 1
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101Page 1 Advertisements Column 5 Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 490, 31 July 1902, Page 1
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