NEWS AND NOTES.
With reference to so many accidents as a result of melting beeswax over a fire, a correspondent to a contempoiary says it i s not generally known that if the beeswax is cut up and put in with turpentine over night, it will be found quite dissolved the following morning.
A contemporary points out that there are only two districts in the Dominion in which there are more spinsters than bachelors—namely, Canterbury and Otago, the numbers being 2,299 and 2,765 respectively. This is equal to an excess of over ix per cent in Canterbury and over 16 per cent in Otago. In Auckland there is an opposite state of affairs, there being 7,263 more bachelors that spinsters, which means that the excess is equal to 25 per cenn Bachelors are defined as persons of 20 years of age and upwards, and spinsters as persons of 15 years of age and upwards.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1041, 9 May 1912, Page 4
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154NEWS AND NOTES. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1041, 9 May 1912, Page 4
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