THE RECENT EXHIBITION
A Commissioners Straight Talk. What Became of the Grapes! Christchurch, April 26Mr Scott, the South Australian Commissioner, informed a reporter thqt irrespective of samples, the hospitalty of. South Australia at the Exhibition extended to sixtyfour cases of wine. The New Zealand Government had charged him duty amounting to ,£32, at rate of 10s a case on this wine, ‘ 1 Never before, ’ ’ said Mr Scott ‘‘ at any exhibition in the world has such an impost been levied, and this sort of thing is calculated to do harm.” Mr Scott reports that fourteen cases of grapes out of the last shipment have disappeared in some mysterious manner. He is quite unable to trace them, and has been obliged to refund to several purchasers. being unable to deliver. The total amount received in the Exhibition tea-rooms during the season was ,£16,771 5s qd. The lavatories earned ,£482 7s 7d, and the cloak-rooms £397 is 4d.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3763, 27 April 1907, Page 3
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155THE RECENT EXHIBITION Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3763, 27 April 1907, Page 3
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