Last year the total quantity of fish landed in English and Welsh ports ex' ooedod that of any previous year. The landings surpassed those of 1912 by more than one and a half million hundredweights, anil in value by $1,260,0C0. The total value, says tho annual report on sea fisheries, issued by the Board of Agriculture and Fkheriits, is more than £10.000,000. Many sightseers stood outside St. Paul's Cathedral recently watching , tho operations of ■workmen high up at tho baee of the guildcd cross at tho top of the dome. The men were engaged in washing a year'e accumulation of London'* prime from the β-ilt. Once a year the ijrilt nrock a thorough spring eloan'ng. but residing fciikoft place only once in a quarter of a ccnturj.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 16165, 29 August 1914, Page 8
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127Page 8 Advertisements Column 2 Otago Daily Times, Issue 16165, 29 August 1914, Page 8
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