NEWS IN BRIEF.
Twenty convicts in .Maidstone prison have been passed a- efficient in first aid work. A tramp, lined at Ayr for sleeping in a railway carriage, had in Ins possession over £155. A New York bootblack carries a, wireless set to provide entertainment for customers. The Queen lias given £IOOO to (he fund for the Princess Louise Hospital for Children, London. Thirty different kinds of materials are used bv different authorities for paving the streets of London. Mr. Charles Howe recently completed 73 years as a. chorister at Stoney Stanton Church, Leicester. A £115,000 scheme for baths and wash-houses lias been recommended to Bethnal Green Borough ('ouncil. A macaw at. the Crystal Palace cage bit'll show, while being photographed, stole some brass buttons from the dress of its mistress and swallowed them. Total weight of children horn in King’s College Hospital during one year is over two tons. If anyone could induce them to lie in a continuous chain they would extend the length of the longest, corridor 820 ft.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2885, 19 May 1925, Page 1
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172NEWS IN BRIEF. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2885, 19 May 1925, Page 1
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