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Otago Witness, Issue 3881, 31 July 1928, Page 70

There was much speculation made on the waterfront at Bluff the other day as to the nationality bf certain dark-skinned members of the stokehold crew of the Willesden, which arrived from Juan de Nova in the morning with a cargo of guano (says the Southland Times). Investigations ? revealed them to be Arabs, thus dispelling the. idea gaining favour that they were coolies or Portuguese half-castes. One of the crew, 1 distinctly darker than the rest, proved to be from Somaliland. The remainder of the crew are Europeans, mostly English. An American visitor (Mr W. C. Eccles) remarked to a pressman that he had been very much surprised by ‘ the number of horses he had seen in New Zealand (says the Auckland Star), “If you see a horse in tha States," he said, “you turn round and have. a.look at it! Tractors^of all descriptions did the work „on the farms .in his home . land that. we ..assigned to horses.. Mr Eccles .was .enthusiastic in his praise of.. New .Zealand,, as ..'.a farming country, declaring that if he. were a young man -again - and-, wanted,.- to -go in ’..for. ;farming he- would st<jp .“ right •here.”,