NEWS IN BRIEF.
There are over 300,000 coneretehiixers in use to-day.
There are 870,782 motor vehicles licensed in the United Kingdom. There are 204 permanent women Civil servants with salaries of £SOO a year or over in Great Britain. According to the census, the population of Switzerland was on December 31st, 1920, 3,880,320. Legislation providing for workmen’s compensation is to be introduced in India next spring.
Colombia, on October 14th, ratified the treaty with the United States, by which she obtains 25,000,000 dollars compensation for the loss of Panama in 1903.
American scientists plan an expedition to South Africa for the study of unusual geological formation north of Pretoria; it is hoped to shed light on the origin of granite, long , a perplexing question to the petrologist. The Leaning Budda is a Chinese rival of the tower of Pisa. This twelfth-century pagoda, near Nanking, is 100 ft. high, of 13 stories, and inclines 12ft. from the perpendicular, while the 179 ft. leaning tower of Pisa inclines 10) ft.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2382, 21 January 1922, Page 4
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168NEWS IN BRIEF. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2382, 21 January 1922, Page 4
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