Martin von Waldseemuller was the man who i>nt America on the map. He was a German cosmographist, of St Die, Lorraine, who in 1507 published a map on which the word “America ” appeared for the first time as a name for the new continent. Neither Columbus nor Amerigo Vespucci over heard the word. Kaitangata is our most economical coal; it radiates such a lasting heat.—Advt,
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21264, 19 February 1931, Page 6
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