NEWS IN BRIEF.
There are 32,000,000 fowls in the
United Kingdom. Britain produces £1,000,000 worth of strawberries Yearly.-
The first English tramway was opened in 1800 at Birkenhead,
There were 2,170 persons killed by wild animals in India in 1917. Whales have been known to cut through six or seven inches of thin ice.
Fifty thousand French-speaking Canadians enlisted during the war.
Great Britain manufactured more than 50,000 aeroplanes in 1916, 1917 and 1918. As the result of strikes in Britain in 1918, 11,030,723 working days were lost.
The average crop,of wheat in the Union of South Africa is only about ten bushels per acre. The value of the spare parts of motor vehicles in stock' at (he end of the wat* was £15,000,000,
There are 937 Asiatic languages and dialects, 587 European, 270 African, and 1,02-1 American.
In eleven months £300,000,000 worth of ammunition was conveyed from Southampton to Havre.
Snow is white because its crystals and prisms relied only those rays of which while light consists.
Since 1 lie armistice the staff of the Ministry of Munitions has been reduced from 25,114 to 10,101.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2001, 10 July 1919, Page 1
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186NEWS IN BRIEF. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2001, 10 July 1919, Page 1
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