NEWS IN BRIEF.
After living in one house for 79 years, never sleeping out of it a single night, Miss Nicklin recently died at Foleshire, Warwickshire. Railway workers have received new names, platelayers -or labourers now being known as “undermen” and fogmen as “fog-signal-men.” Education in Scotland costs three times as much as before the war; in Laniington, Lanarkshire, the cost per child reaches £SO per year. “Searchers,” who made a living by looking up any required information at the British Museum have done very litte work since the year the war began. Atificial limbs supplied to war victims by the Ministry of Pensions last year, comprised 9469 legs, 393/ arms and artificial eyes in 4000 ense.s. __ After being alight for neary 250 years, the furnaces at London’s famous Whitefriars glassworks have been extinguished, as the factory is being removed.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2567, 14 April 1923, Page 4
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140NEWS IN BRIEF. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2567, 14 April 1923, Page 4
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