' The Chinese li, a measure of length', is the equivalent of one one-hundredth _oi a. day's walk; on tho level, this slightly exceeds one-third of an English mile, but in billy country it might he as little as one-eighth of a mile.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19338, 31 May 1937, Page 11
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