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Timaru Herald, Volume LXXXII, Issue 12796, 30 September 1905, Page 1 (Supplement)

; Some remarks regarding the kerosene trade of the colony' ' -were made by Mr Byron Brown, in the course of his election address at. Johnsonville. When the duty of sixpence per gallon was taken off kerosene it was reckoned, he said, that the price of 9Jd per gallon woidd fall to 3Jd. That was tie' case for about a month, • but then Mr J. Rockefeller got wind of the' alteration,' and foot steps to reap the benefit. • Soon ,th&"pri(* went up and up uitil now the latest quotation was IOJd per gallon. :(A voices" "We don't get it for that.") 1 Well, they did not pay much more. • It-was..very little profit the storekeeper made on kerosene, bnt the ■case was different with-Mr. J. D. Rockefeller. Last, year -we. imported' 4,420,000 gallons of kerosene to this colony* and when we summedcup tie matter we found that he waa mjaking ont-.of the people of this colony £110,512-by comparison "with the rstwM wwi tlje dpty yns In forci-