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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
Mar 25, 1901
Page
1
The speaker appoints MESSRS HARDY & CO Merchants Rakais as agents for all auctioneering work in the Rakai district and plans to collaborate with them to make the Rakai base a success.
The article recounts that plants from ancient tombs resemble those in the Nile valley today and describes funeral preparations showing preserved plant forms. It also quotes a farmer's prayer from 184 during a French invasion threat and reports on a Wesleyan conference discussion about the biblical story of Jonah and the whale.
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