NEWS IN BRIEF.
pula tion is white. Metal tokens in one and two franc denominations have been put into circulation in France.
A/i aerodrome costing over £BO,000 has been sold by the British Government for a hundred guineas.
Music in England has few festivals of greater fame or antiquity than the Three Choirs Festival at Hereford, in which choirs of Gloucester, Worcester, and Hereford have just taken part for the 201st time.
Monday, September sth, was observed as a day of mourning in Panama City for the loss of Goto, which has been taken over by Costa Rica in accordance with the boundary award. Shops were closed and business genetally suspended. A vast irrigation scheme is being planned to turn 2,500,000 acres of useless country in Brazil into flourishing farms, at a cost of £15,000,000. It is also proposed to generate power by utilising the Amazon, which contains a quarter of ' the world’s fresh water.
British Columbia has lfbw 5,000 goals'within her boundaries, with an estimated value of £40,000. The production of milk for 1920 was estimated at 75,000 gallons, valued at £9,000. Three years ago, the estimated number of goats in the province was 1,000.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2358, 22 November 1921, Page 4
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196NEWS IN BRIEF. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2358, 22 November 1921, Page 4
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