In the greet record sale of South African Friesians in England, prices wore not all profit—2s per cent, had to come off for commissions of one kind or another, and ex penses from start to finish worked out at £250 per head. As much as sight pounds of tortoiseshell may ho obtained from one hawk’s-bill turtle, one of the marine turtles of the tropics. The art of tinning iron appears to have originated in the sixteenth century; tinplate wos first manufactured in Groat Britain in 1670.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18751, 3 January 1923, Page 6
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86Page 6 Advertisements Column 3 Otago Daily Times, Issue 18751, 3 January 1923, Page 6
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