WHERE GEMS ARE TESTED
LONDON, dan. 20. Owing to defects in the building of the Museum of Practical Geology,. Jer-myn-street, Piccadilly, caused, it is believed. by a subsidence through excavations iii the vicinity, parties of visitors are limited to six people at a time in the gallery. 'I lie two galleries contain a great collection ol fossils. Ihe museum, which is to be reunited m the near future to South Kensington, specialises in rare gems of unusual colourings, and all the hues of the rainbow are to he seen in a collection which derives something from practically every country in the world. •‘One very practical part of the work here, and one which is perhaps not verv well known.” sad an official to a reporter yesterday, “is the examination for members of the public of gems to see if they are genuine or not.
COLLIERIES RESTART. LONDON, Jan. 26. Eighteen collieries have restarted in Durham County since the introduction of the coal subsidy and seven of them resumed after the decision of tlie Durham Miners’ Association sanctioning local arrangements at individual mines. A large group of collieries in I the Birtley district recently changed
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Hokitika Guardian, 16 March 1926, Page 3
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194WHERE GEMS ARE TESTED Hokitika Guardian, 16 March 1926, Page 3
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