The pages of the “ Official Year Book” may not be looked upon as likely to induce a smile, yet some cm nous thoughts me/ be started therein. It is state! for instance that “ i cwt, of butter, valued at /"s,” ' v "s sent ‘‘to Hong Kong,” and later that a similar nuantity, the same value, was shipped “to China.” Whether the two amounts are really one is not explained, but anyway, even if twowhole hundred-wn’ghts vent the four hundred odd mil lion children of the almond-eyed Emperor must look upon blew Zealand butter with as much deference as their Western brethren do just-now upon radium.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3560, 15 August 1905, Page 2
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105Page 2 Advertisements Column 6 Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3560, 15 August 1905, Page 2
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