NEWS IN BRIEF.
Tame snakes are used in Morocco to clear houses of rats and mice. The sight of a snake seems to terrify the pests. What is said to be the largest deposit, of the radium in the world has been discovered by an expedition in Russian Turkestan. Only one child out of every three in London receives any education
,( voiid that provided by tile clcncntarv schools. A woman who look a course in ■lottery-making at a London Countv Council school is now making £.!.- 1)00 a year by her art. Flats and offices arc to be included in a new church building designed for New Y->rk. It will be 24 stories high, and is to co.-l '(J800,000. Letters from London will be delivered in Sydney a week alter posting when the British “All-Red route of fast aeroplane- is in working order. The value of granite as a building material is .10 to 25 times as great as that of brick. After granite comes limestone, slate, and sandstone.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2712, 25 March 1924, Page 4
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168NEWS IN BRIEF. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2712, 25 March 1924, Page 4
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