NEWS IN BRIEF.
A two hours’ concert programme was given by a resident of Grimsby who had only a pianist to assist lum. He sang comic songs, gave some monologues, told funny stories, and finished up with a conjuring display. A motor car driven by two Fren-ch-men left Paris a minute after midnight on Tuesday, April 11, and reached Nice at 11.25 a.m. on Wednesday, April 12, the journey of 680 miles having been completed in llh. 24m. A novel method of coping with overflow meetings met with success at Bedford. By means of wireless telephony and a loud speaker, a speech delivered from Ihe platform to a crowded hall was also heard distinctly in the market-place outside. Loondon omnibuses and underground railways in 1022 carried 1,172,000,000 people. This is a record and shows that 72,000,000 more people were carried in that year than in 1021. The distance covered by the trains and ’buses was 163,000,000 miles.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2635, 20 September 1923, Page 4
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157NEWS IN BRIEF. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2635, 20 September 1923, Page 4
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