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[P«b Prbss Association.] WELLINGTON, Today. The Premier states that the £250 Government subsidy, for sendinganexpert of the flax ' industry to England, ib dow available, and aa -.the flax growers had subscribed the necessary i balance, there was every hope that an : arrangement to send an expert would be •completed, and that he would leave for Xondon by the next ship. AUCKLAND, To-day. Jj»Bt evening a fire occurred in four houses in a blook owned by the Bank of New South Wales, Grafton road. Two were destroyed, and the. others gutted. . From two residences most of the furniture was got out, but only one tenant, Piggott, was insured, having £75 -Jn the New Zealand. The insurance the bank mad on the block was about £700 in the Rational. The total loss is about £1000.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7794, 5 December 1896, Page 3
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134INTERPROVINCIAL. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7794, 5 December 1896, Page 3
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