THE RIVERS COMMISSION.
[BT TELEBBArH. — SPFOIAL TO TIIB PogT.J PALMERSTON N., This Day. An interesting fact bearing on the profits of the hemp indu3t*y and the vexed question of royalties was testified to before tho Rivers Commission yesterday. A witness said, his son in one season, nine months, paid £1750 in royalty for flax taken off eighty acres of swamp. The commission has now adjourned sine 'die, having concluded the taking of evidence for the present. Fifty- , five witnesses have been examined.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXVI, Issue 76, 26 September 1908, Page 5
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82THE RIVERS COMMISSION. Evening Post, Volume LXXVI, Issue 76, 26 September 1908, Page 5
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