The Ministry of Pensions has 1,145,000 cases on its books, and they increase by 18,1100 weekly. Olio of our smallest colonies is tho Falkland Islands. TJior'e are 2043 people, who livo in 359 houses. In the brightest ■ moonlight it Is almost impossible to ■ see an aeroplane flying at 10,000 ft. to 15,000i't. The Fiji group of islands, which were annexed by Great Britain in IS7-1, number 220, all of volcanic origin. If we had paid the same price for gun ammunition in 1917., as in 1915, the increase in cost would have been m 000,000.. It is estimated that ; the present system of coal distribution in Great Britain will save tho equivalent of 700,000,000 tons being carried a mile. Benares, 'the sacred city of India, it visited annually by nearly 2,000,000 •Tims.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 241, 29 June 1918, Page 7
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132Page 7 Advertisements Column 2 Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 241, 29 June 1918, Page 7
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