Tho Chinjse produced "cultured" ' pearls years ago by inserting small shot or fragments of mother of pearls into the shells of fresh-water mussels which they kept in tanks Through illness, 19,500,000 weeks of work were lost last year. This is equal to the work of 375,000 people for a whole year.
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New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11685, 24 November 1923, Page 12
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