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SALT PAY FOR SUPERS.
Major Hans Srvhomburgk, the explorer, who has just returned to London from West Central Africa with films of native life, said : "T% 'supers' we hired were paid two cups of salt a day; salt being the 'current coin' with which even wives are bought,''
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Mataura Ensign, 2 July 1914, Page 4
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48SALT PAY FOR SUPERS. Mataura Ensign, 2 July 1914, Page 4
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