NEWS IN BRIEF.
Sixty per cent, of British salmon is caught in Scotland. Some 212,000 tons of fish are imported into London every year. America controls TO per cent, of the oil production of the world. The cherry, the peach, and the plum were first grown in Persia, Asiatic cholera is the most fatally rapid disease known to medical science. Mount Etna is known to have been active as a volcano as fur back as 500 B.C. A “Heroes’ Garden” is part of the proposed war memorial scheme for Aldershot. It is said that in fifty years artificial lighting will cost about a fiftieth of its present price. The value of the 1 total agricultural production in Canada has exceeded £380,200,000 Moths do not eat clothes. This is done by the grubs that develop from eggs the moths have laid. Professor Niels Bohr, the discoverer of the new element hafnium, has been awarded £BOOO by the Rockefeller Education Board in order to modernise his laboratory.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2730, 8 May 1924, Page 4
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165NEWS IN BRIEF. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2730, 8 May 1924, Page 4
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