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Star (Christchurch), Issue 10684, 3 February 1913, Page 3

The estates of the ninety-five deceased millionaires during the thirteen years 1900-1912, had an aggregate value of £179,841.411. It is said that the signature of a oross, much used on old documents, is often misunderstood to mean inability to write on the part of the signer. It was often, duo to that cause, but quite as often among the Saxons it was an attestation of good faith, a form of oath that the statement was true. The sum of £44.187,000 was spent in Great Britain on imported wheat and flour last year. 11' to this were added the value'of tho home orop, a total of •€0,j,000,000 wa.> reached, representing ...» oxpendii.un- „l' <>vrr 1M.000.000 a wfok •>!! Invad and llwiir. -Mr it. H. Heiv. C.U. . - •