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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1313, 16 December 1911, Page 6

' The Ncvr. South Wales State Goverament has decided to grant a minimum salary of £110 a year to every female employed in the Public Scrvico whoso services are wholly at tho Government s (lisjwsal, including tcachcrs in tho Department of Public Instruction, teachers of cookery, instructors in tho Industrial School for Girls at Parrauiatta, library assistants, typistcs, and other positions as tho Public Scrvico Board may determine. Tho Governor has given his apj proval to tho regulation. Fond Fathor—"Yes, Johnny, when the I millonium is come tho lamb can lio down with the lion i;i perfect safety." Little Johnny (doubtingly)—"l s'poso thafs so, but I'd rather be tho lion, just tho same." Little Willie: "Say, pa, doesn't it get colder when the thermometer falls?' Pa: "Yes, my son." Little Willie: "Well, ours has fallen." Pa: "How far?" Little, Willie: "About five feet—and when it struck the hall floor it broke." Constantinople at present has ten pioture palaces. I'risoners in the Montgomery City Gaol. Cliieaqo, aro now permitted to go out and iisli all day. ■ 13.V means of a sparrow ejub 2724 birds were killed in a district in Mid-Dorset anil iSSI eggs taken. Britain's total expenditure in naval matters in 1310 was nearly three times that- of I'rauw! lor the corresponding itriod,