NEWS IN BRIEF.
To guide airmen flying on the Paris to Londoji route, the 1 reach Government is placing captive balloons in certain positions at a height 'of about a mile.
Two Leeds men, who posed as armless, but had their arms .under their waistcoats, were sentenced to six weeks’ hard labour for obtaining charity by fraud.
Glittering breastplates tlniMhe French Cuirassiers used to wear are being disposed of in Paris, bundles of old cuirasses being sold for £3 to dealers in old metal. Owing to a strike of English joiners in the shipbuilding trade, a new ship for China bad to leave without its woodwork. It will be fitted by Chinamen when it arrives. 'The approximate deficit on the London County Council trawmays for the year to March 31st, 1921, is £#)!>,(iß2, which, 'it is anticipated, will lie reduced to about £540,484. Probably in no country in the world are fish more largely consumed than in Burma. Fish, either fresh or fried, or in the form of fish paste, is a concomitant of every ■ Burmese meal.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2293, 23 June 1921, Page 1
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177NEWS IN BRIEF. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2293, 23 June 1921, Page 1
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