Chain letters are again in circulation. One was receive'd the other day (says the Waikato Independent) by a Cambridge business man, giving the names of the last nine or ten people who had faithfully carried on th,e chain, and containing the usual warning against breaking it. He returned the letter to the sender, pointing out that if he broke the chain (since he had no intention of carrying it on) he would be by no means the first, since a little arithmetical calculation indicated that if each of the nine people mentioned had sent the letter on to nine others, and each in turn had faithfully carried out instructions, something like 3,486,784,401 letters would have been written since the chain started, which was obviously absui'd.
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Waipa Post, Volume 45, Issue 3250, 3 November 1932, Page 8
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