NEWS IN BRIEF.
According to the official statistics 57 boys and girls under the age of 15 years of age committed suicide in Prussia in 1920. The statistics for 1919 gave suicides of 48 boys and eight girls. Wood for tennis rackets requires at least five years’ seasoning—that is to say, it is kept for five years in the rough timber state before being cut up for use. The wood which is used for aeroplanes has been kept, as a rule, for forty years before it is considered sufficiently in condition to be used. A total of 42,575,392 pounds of butter, an increase of 939,881 pounds over 1920, was produced in 1921, in the province of Quebec, accounting for about £3,086,000. In the same time 53,525,706 pounds of cheese was manufactured. There were 674 creameries in operation with 600,160 cows supplying them. From London it is reported that the return for the sales of National Savings Certificates during- the week ended April 1, the last week of the issue for Savings Certificates at 15s 6d, show a total of 32,000,000 certificates sold. This is the highest weekly total .sale ever recorded. The grand total for sales this year represents a cash investof certificates up to March 31 of meat of £443,219,267/
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2447, 29 June 1922, Page 4
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211NEWS IN BRIEF. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2447, 29 June 1922, Page 4
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