Of the population of 1,500,000.000 in tho world, one-half were still onh- partly clothed. and 250,000,000 wore no clothes at all. said Mr. A. H. Ashbolt, AgentGeneral for Tasmania, at tho Royal Society of Arte. A new law in Peru requires all males from 13 to GO to work on’ the highways three days a year or pay for labour hire for three days. From this law, if. is estimated seme £500.000 will be raised annually, and good roads will result. Trench-digging machines originally sent to France for the American Army, are to be used in the siructinn of the 126-mile Havre pipeline, which i« to bring petroleum direct from Havre to Paris. .The work will probablv take a year to complete.
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 120, 14 February 1921, Page 8
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122Untitled Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 120, 14 February 1921, Page 8
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