The wool exported from New Zealand in 1875, reached nearly 541 millions of pounds weight, of the declared value of £3,398.155. There are no less than seventy-five thousand walled cities in China, and the materials in the walls which surround them would construct a wall 20 feet thick and 30 feet high round the world, and leave material enough to build all the houses in the United States.
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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 410, 16 September 1876, Page 2
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68Untitled Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 410, 16 September 1876, Page 2
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