A farmer’s wife usually sold butter to the village grocer ready wrapped in pound packets. “The last lot of butter you sent was short weight,” complained the grocer one day. “Really?” replied the farmer’s wife. remember now that I had mislaid my pound weight, so I used a pound packet of your sugar.”
NORTH AFRICAN PHOSPHATE £4/10/Per ton net on trucks, Wellington. High-grade Basic Phosphate, 58/63% BOOK NOW for March-April delivery. G. H. PERRY & CO., Ltd.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 September 1938, Page 3
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