NEWS AND NOTES.
From several fat wads of notes a Pairlic (South Canterbury) resilient begun to distribute to his friends (ionium paper money in a lavish maimer. To each of ; i dozen people lie presented notes representing ld(),90(1 mark.- and -till iiad several million marks' worth, left. lie explained that all lliiv calt h was purchased hy him for the In me r-n in of f> -.
Auekhmd now leads the Dominion in !lie prodiirlion of electrieily (states the Herald). It was reported to 'the Power Hoard that the production was nearly a million units per week. Thus the hoard’s onlpif was now the greatest in N'ew Zealand. Until reeentlv the largest output was from Lake Coleridge station. What is the eoal consumption '! asked Mr T. Bloodworth. “Aliout I.dOO tons a week,” replied the general manager. The London Morning Post's Riga correspondent stales that an amazing manifesto has been issued by the Communists' International Congress which has .just eolieluded at Moscow. It declares that (he Red Army and Navy are guarding the arsenal of a world revolution preliminary in which the Communists throughout the world mils! enter capitalist armies and be ready to direct their weapons against the bourgeoise. Similarly, Communist groups must be formed in the ranks of railway workers and in military bar-
Are tomatoes fruit or vegetables'? The. Waimakariri Harbour Commission puzzled over the question for a minute or so, when (he Commissioner (Mr A. D. Thomson) asked Mr C. Morgan Williams, a farmer, of Oliokn, whether touialoes were of the vegetable or the choicer class. “1 don’t know; I would have to ask the lawyer,” replied Mr. Williams, taken aback by the question. Alter a. moments thought he proffered the opinion that tomatoes were fruit, as they were packed in cases.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2759, 17 July 1924, Page 1
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294NEWS AND NOTES. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2759, 17 July 1924, Page 1
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