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New Zealand Tablet, 6 April 1916, Page 43

The world’s products of lead pencils probably amounts to nearly 2,000,000,000 a year, half of which are made from American-grown cedar. The United States makes about 750,000,000 a year, or more than eight pencils for each of its inhabitants. r Ui - : At the-Midland Railway lost property sale at Derby recently a keg of methylene blue, weighing about realised £3lO, which worked out over 36s a pound-a world’s record. Prior to the war the keg would have been worth- £l2 to £ls.