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and Queen's Wharf and the Queen's Bond on payment of the amount of 
£31,000; £19,000 being the amount asked for the wharf and bond. The 
Bill became law during the same year, under the title “ Wellington 
Reclaimed Land Act." 
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2. Papers and. Despatches relative to New Zealand (House of Commons, 569, 1842). 
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The Chemistry of Bush Sickness, or Iron Starvation, in Ruminants. 
By B. C. Aston, F.I.C., F.N Z Inst. 
[ABsTRACT.] 
animals published in 1911 showed a great deficiency of iron, although the 
grass-ash failed to show any such deficiency. Grass is, however, easily 
contaminated by soil, and this pumice soil would yield about ten times 
more iron to the hydrochloric acid than would the grass-ash. Hence, unless 
