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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 299, 18 September 1928, Page 10

That things have not changed greatly during the last 50 years is evident from the following extract from the •'Lyttelton Times” for September 13, 187 S: "Russian Peevishness. —The Russian ‘Society for Promoting Total Abstinence from Things of English Manufacture' have had a large accession of members of late. The principal regulation of the society is that nny member who knowingly purchases an article imported from England, or of English manufacture, shall be lined half the extent of the purchase price. The 'St. Petersburg Contemporary Review' warmly supports the scheme in its current number, and asserts that the only way of reaching the feelings of the ‘miserly shopkeeper,’ John Bull, is ‘through his trousers noeke.i.’ ”