NEWS IN BRIEF
Glasgow has first place in British shipbuilding for 1920. The output from Glasgow ''shipyards amounted to 457,032 tons.
About 18ft. to the summit of the horns is the full height of an adult
male giraffe, which is thus the tail est of living animals.
Production of wheat in Italy last year declined by 000,000 metric hms, despite the iucrea.-e of 271,000 hectares in area sown.
A Bank of Nevada, U.S.A., is starling a 5s deposit account for every baby born in the district, with a His account for twins.
The peat bogs of Canada are estimated to contain some 9,300,000,000 tons of peat, equivalent as fuel to 5,400,000 tons of good coal. Gold treated till it is white in colour, and other imitations, are being sold as platinum, the fashionable and very expensive metal. The Red Cross may not be used as a trade mark. .
Owing to the excessive slaughter of kangaroos in Tasmania, the rLasinanian Government has introduced a Bill to protect kangai for two vears.
Turkish women of the Moslem religion have been forbidden hv the Sheik ul-Islam (the religious chief of Constantinople) to appear on the stage.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2309, 30 July 1921, Page 1
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193NEWS IN BRIEF Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2309, 30 July 1921, Page 1
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