THEFT OF GRASS SEED
By Telegraph-PreES Association. Auckland, Anmist 26. Thomas Arthur Kemp, charged with theft from the Farmers' Union Trading Company of grass seed valued at £324, was sentenced to one year's imprisonment. Application for a new trial was refused.
About 200 years ago the Dutch destroyed every nutmeg tree in the Moluccas, and! planted the trees in their own possessions, so that they might have a monopoly of the trade. Despite this action, however, the islands were constantly being restocked. For a long timo the thing was a mystery, but finally it was solved. The doves of that region are of large size, and readily swallow the seeds of the nutmeg tree. They traverse, wide stretches of sea and land in a few hours, and they deposit the seeds, not only uninjured, but better suited for .(Termination by the heat and moisture of the birds' system.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 290, 27 August 1918, Page 8
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148THEFT OF GRASS SEED Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 290, 27 August 1918, Page 8
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