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Otago Witness, Issue 2818, 18 March 1908, Page 40

A seizure of a number of sacks of bad ovstere was made at Masterton by the llealth Department a few days since. It is stated that hawkers attend the saies in Wellington and purchase for two or three shillings a sack of oysters absolutely unfit for human food at a time when good ovstera are bringing 18s or more per sack. The bad oysters are immediately taken up to the country towns and hawked round at what might be a reasonable price if they were good, but both the price and the" oysters prove very high under the circumstances. A well-known politician was somewhat hostile to motorists, and opposed the proposal to bridge country streams. He became a car-owner him6elf, however, and while on a tour stopped ;n; n a creek and remained there till the next day, after which he became &s strong a bridge advocate as anybody. These facts were related at the Christchurch Automobile Association's amoke concert.