NEWS IN BRIEF.
A year’s rent was the prize offered at a Mansfield whist drive. The Christmas of 1860 was the coldest ever experienced in Britain. Motor cars are exported from Canada at the rate of 177 per working day. Longer skirts arc said to be threatening the sale of expensive silk stockings. Tile population of Canada averages less than three persons to the square mile. A beekeeper in Ontario has bad one ton of honey from Uiirty-one hives this year. Less than hall: the children born in London nowadays are vaccinated during infancy. Buckles shaped to show the initials of the wearer, are one of the latest shoe “fads.” Vitamines, the mysterious but essential qualities in food, are caused in milk by sunlight. When the Prince of Wales was entertained last year by London, the reception cost £2,255. The day population <>f the Woolworth Building. New York’s famous structure, is 14,000.
The deadly tsetse fly >s kept- under in East Africa by a certain parasite unknown in West Africa. Lighting Blackfriars Bridge cost£6ol during the financial year; Lorndon Bridge lighting cost, only £35 1.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2703, 4 March 1924, Page 1
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185NEWS IN BRIEF. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2703, 4 March 1924, Page 1
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