Clam Shells?
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Got Any Giant Clam Shells?
v Late in November, an ad vertisement appeared in an Auckland newspaper on behalf of a person seeking giant clam shells “not less than 30 inches in diameter”.
Curious as to what was behind it, PlM’s local representative phoned the number given and a rather weary American voice explained it all. They were wanted merely as decorations in a city restaurant.
No, he wasn't buying them commercially but if “PlM’s” man had any, there sure was a market for them, right there in Auckland. Yes, sir.
The newspaper readers had got the wrong end of the stick as usual, and he’d had at least 60 phone calls from persons who thought he was a seller, not a buyer. v How about the price? Well, he thought that these people would have gladly paid maybe 20/-, maybe more.
So, when the next Islands ketch is going south, why not M 2 cargo?