NEWS IN BRIEF.
The albatross is the largest of sea birds.
The great auk has been extinct since 1844.
Toronto has now 100,000 telephones, or one for every five persons —men, women and children — in the city, a higher percentage, it is claimed, than any other city in (he British Empire. Instead of building in city-block style, a contractor is turning each house at an angle of 45 degrees, giving the block a saw-toothed facade, and admitting light and air from four directions.
Ninety per. cent, of the devastated a era of France is now restored to cultivation; half the destroyed manufactories have been reopened and 09 per. -cent, of the damaged railway lines are now in use.
Italy’s grain crop for 1921 has been announced as totalling 52,000000 quintals, as compared with 38,000,000 quintals in 1920 and 47,000,000*quintals in 1919. It is expected that foreign purchase will be less than half the 1920 purchases.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2402, 9 March 1922, Page 4
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155NEWS IN BRIEF. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2402, 9 March 1922, Page 4
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