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Dunstan Times, Issue 3135, 18 September 1922, Page 2

An unusual contract of insurance wits ■mentioned ;if ;i meet in”; of tlio Insurance (.‘uild in Wellington. Tim policy (•■wered 11 1 <'■ contents of :i tombstonennikor’s yard against loss by fire, ii seemed in the narrator that Hie preininni would be “easy money,” lint a fire in an adjoining; building proved that the monument maker was as hard in fin' head as his wares, as several of tin' stones were knocked over and broken by the high-pressure water used in fighting the flames. Rradford Wool Record' reports (hal nine merino owe fleeces at the Pori Elizabeth (South Africa) show averaged about Id.jlb in the grease, and gave a clear yield of (>7 per cent. This woo! was grown on the veldt, on stud ewes, in the (Iraaff Reined district of Cape Colonv.