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(British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Jan. 30. The Minister of Labour, Rt. Hon. Miss Margaret Bondfield, stated in the me House of Commons that the* average weekly amount of unemployment benefit paid to 1,0(A),GOO persons claiming the benefit and to their, dependents in 1929 was £790,000. DIPLOMATIC APPOINTMENT. RUGBY, January 28. The King has approved the appointment of Mr Joseph Addison, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of Aiga, Reval and Kovno, to be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of Prague. LADY READING. RUGBY. January 31. Obituary—Lady Reading, wife of Lord Reading, former. Viceroy of India and a Liberal peer. Lady Reading had been ill ever since her return from India with her husband. The newspapers speak of her beneficent social work in India, where,- through her energetic appeals, a sum of £IOO,OOO was raised to endow a hospial in Simla for women and children and for training nurses. She also founded the Indian National Baby Week, which has been instrumentral in reducing enormously the high rate of. infantile mortality in that country. When her health broke down she had so won her way to the hearts of the people that prayers for her recovery were said in the temples, mosques and synagogues throughout the country.
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Hokitika Guardian, 1 February 1930, Page 5
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