Au offer made to tho Queensland Land Department to purchase 200,000 acres of resumption land in the central west district has been declined, on the ground that the Department was not in a position to sell at a rate per acre lower than that fixed by Parliament, Tho price offered was 6s 8d per acre. The largest export of poultry and eggs yet shipped from Marlborough was sent away from Blenheim to Wellington last week—l3s pairs of fowls, 20 pairs of ducks, six pairs of turkeys, and about 600 dozen eggs. It is hoped by those inter-, ested that this will be the beginning of a profitable export trade,
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Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 1050, 18 November 1903, Page 2
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