NEWS IN BRIEF.
Under the Italian laws a foreign resident in Italy pays income tax solely on income derived from Italian sources.
Some 100,000 articles of enemy equipment have been distributed as souvenirs in Great Britain and the dominions overseas.
Of the total of nearly 17,000.000 workers in Britain, only about forty per cent.- are organised into trades unions.
The wages bill for the principal English railways for a full year is estimated at £103,000,000, mure than three times (hat of 1013.
Britain holds in bond 004,00(1 cwl. of sugar, nearly .1.03,000,000 lh, ot tea, and 127,154,000 lh. of tobacco more than she did a year ago.
The best briar'roots, used for pipe-bowls, are. dug on the borders of France and Italy, and are sometimes ns large as a man’s body. _ Farmers purchased nearly half of the automobiles manufactured last year: 3,000.000 horses were displaced by motor trucks during the year.
The number of itinerant aerial “taxi-drivers” in the United States who carry passengers on short hut remunerative Jlights is placed at some 300.
While expecting capture by the Germans, , an Australian soldier swallowed a £2O note. Recently lie received a new note from the Government,
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2185, 5 October 1920, Page 4
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196NEWS IN BRIEF. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2185, 5 October 1920, Page 4
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