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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 15873, 12 July 1922, Page 9

Members of the Chinese community in a port on the Queensland coast recently succeeded in effecting a corner in bronze coins. As a result of the scarcity of coppers tho Chinese wore eventually able to* retail their collection at a cost of 21s for every £1 worth of bronze coins. 3o successful were the speculators that they decided to increase their' price to 22s- Their greed, howover, proved to be their undoing, and irate business men donounced the attitude taken up by the holders of bronze coin. Eventually tho Foderal Treasury officials were notified 6f tho plight ol business neople in this Queensland port. They immediately decided to meet the position, and dispatched £IOOO worth of bronze coins to the distressed port. As sooti as this consignment arrived down went tho price of pennies, and the Chinese manipulators found themselves pvorfoaded with a supply of coins for which there was no demand. My mother Is so kind to met Bach night she takes me on her knee, And as the winter twilight nales, Mum rcada me lovely fatrlytales. Ami when I'm very, very good, She sings or "Sweet'Red Riding Hood." Then last of all and nest, he 6ur«, Mum gives me Woods' Peppermint Cure.