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This advertisement for clothes and linen at bargain-basement prices followed the bankruptcy of the Dunedin business Mollison, Duthie & Co. The late 1870s and early 1880s were hard on many smaller businesses as the immigration boom tailed off and income from gold and wool fell.
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National Library of New Zealand, Papers Past
Reference: New Zealand Tablet, 17 August 1883, p. 4
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