“The edible rat was the currency of Easter Island,” said Professor Macmillan Brown in a. lecture to the Workers’ Educational Association at Christchurch on Saturday. “The rat was a vegetarian and was roasted whole with all its vegetarian parts and was supposed to be very like a ■ ausage. If an Easter Islander wanted •to buy anything, he went to the rat 'burrows at night and collected as much money as he needed.” Firewood slabs, 5s per cord ; fencbattens 8s per 100 ; Finns sawn timber, low prices. Kelly’s Sawmill, Waitoa.* Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. First aid fop - coughs, colds, influenza.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5167, 19 August 1927, Page 4
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99Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5167, 19 August 1927, Page 4
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