Ambergris Pays no Dividends — Lost Romance of a Strange Substance - The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 14, Issue 6 (September 1939)

Content Partner: Victoria University of Wellington. By … Ronald McIntosh Beachcombing, in spite of the vivid pen-pictures that have been painted of idle and dissolute wastrels in the South Sea islands, was not always a profession to be looked down upon. Indeed, on some occasions in very recent years, even the most respectable people have been known to indulge in it, and little wonder, when by a l...