NEWS IN BRIEF.
Patrolmen employed by the British Automobile Association have picked up all sorts of articles dropped on the road by motorists, ranging from women’s hats to eyeglasses and boots and shoes.
Galvanised iron sheets weighing a total of 39,000 tons are to be used as barriers against locust swarms in Northern Argentine. The sheets will be issued to farmers for use when the swarms appear. A new eoallield has been opened up. in Ulster, a good bituminous seam having been developed at Coal [.'.land, Lough Neagh. In the lir'sl pit there are over 4,000,000 lons of coal available.
To keep the hundred or so deer in Kpping Forest away from the fool and mouth area, the keepers put paraffin on cloths, which they lay on bushes and three. Deer will not go within 200 yards of llie cloths.
The old spelling of Shrewsbury was Serobbesbury, meaning the burgh, or castle, among- the shrubs. The nearest the Normans could come in prnnounciation to Serobbesbury was Salopesbury. Tlien bury ,was dropped and Salop became the short name for Shropshire.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2820, 6 December 1924, Page 1
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179NEWS IN BRIEF. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2820, 6 December 1924, Page 1
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