NEWS IN BRIEF.
The oldest usable motor ear is for sale by its French owner. It was built in 1891, and it can do 12 miles an hour at best.
It is estimated that gold production in British Columbia this year will aggregate £700,000, or nearly £200,000 better than last year. Searching for the “missing link,” 2,000 American archaeologists, ethnologists, cinema photographers, and others have gone to Mongolia. During the last year two American companies have been organised to develop tracts of forest and dia-mond-bearing lands in Bahia, Brazil.
There have only been five cases of birching in the British Navy during nearly four years, in which the present orders have been in force. For relief of the unemployed, .the British Government spent £18,241,200 from. January Ist to April 29th. Unemployment has been heavier since then,
For the first time since before the war, American coal is being imported to the Pacific Coast of Mexico. The first consignment totalled 1,900 tons.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2319, 23 August 1921, Page 4
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161NEWS IN BRIEF. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2319, 23 August 1921, Page 4
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