NEWS IN BRIEF.
A Hull skipper is known to have earned over £25,000 since the war broke out, and another has made £15,000 in two years. Skippers receive about 10 per cent, of the value of their catches. Since the beginning of the war about 90,000 pensions have been granted in Great Britain to the mothers of unmarried soldiers killed in action, on whom they were previously dependent. ' ’ In the Forth Bridge there is a horizontal pull of 10,000 tons on thfe chief spans, and a weight of 100,000 tons on their bases. , Half a' dozen British ironclads might he hung upon them without causing any undue strain. While work was being carried out at the ancient church of St. Augustine at Rimini the diseovery was made of. some extremely important frescoes of the fourteenth century, of the school of Giotto. One of these contains smew and very beautiful portrait of Dante. A Swedish concern, seeking to overcome the .shortage of raw materials for soap making, has undertaken the manufacture of soap from sewer fat, by a new method, and proposes also to use native vegetable fats from beech-mast, horse-chestnuts, and the like.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1821, 2 May 1918, Page 1
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193NEWS IN BRIEF. Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1821, 2 May 1918, Page 1
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