AN ABANDONED INDUSTRY.
(Press Assn.— By Telegraph.-- Copyright.) (Received 9.50 a.m., June 7.) MELBOURNE, June 7. Graving evidence before the Tariff Commission, a member of a leading firm of manufacturing chemists , explained that he obtamed sulphur from Japan. He tried for some years to obtain the article m New Zealand, but as the tourj** traffic went oh increasing the Maoris worked less and depended more upon tourists, so the price of sulphur there went up so high that he had to abandon the trade and import elsewhere.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 10377, 7 June 1905, Page 2
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87AN ABANDONED INDUSTRY. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 10377, 7 June 1905, Page 2
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