A penny changes hands 125,000 times in. the course of a lifetime. A novel system of advertising has oeen. inaugurated by a Scotch distiller. 1 e bought a cargo of parrots, taught them to saw “Drink Blank's whisky, ' and then presented them in gilt cages to the saloonkeepers of Liverpool. _ Mr V/. Mcßae, who is proceeding to Auckland to take up the accountants position with Messrs Briscoe, Mac Neil and Co., who arc extending tlieir business in the North, was yesterday presented by the Wellington management and office staff of the firm (with whom he lias been associated for the last five years) with a smokers companion as a token of the esteem in which he was held"by them. Mr Mcßae will be missed in the cricket field here, as he was a prominent bowler of the Wellington Club. v
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1425, 22 June 1899, Page 12
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140Untitled New Zealand Mail, Issue 1425, 22 June 1899, Page 12
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