NEWS IN BRIEF.
On (he London and North-Eas-tern Railway, 7000 engines are engaged in moving 21,000 coaches over the 7000 miles of the company’s line. Five thousand horses help in the delivery of goods. After keeping it for eighty years, Miss Sussannah Barlow, of Windsor, was buried in a nightgown which was made for her trousseau. She was disappointed in love, and the garment was never worn. The Peruvian Consul-General in London stated that the coast regions of Peru could produce four million tons of cotton a year if properly irrigated, instead of the 40,000 tons produced now. For the first time since the War Army manoeuvres are to be held in England. They will take place in September in Hampshire. Wiltshire, and parts of Berkshire, Dorset, Sussex, and Surrey. Health courses for the benefit of passengers are the latest inovations on Atlantic liners. By special exercises and dieting it is hoped to make the time of the voyage into a time of recuperation. When Mansfield’s new motor-fire engine was taken to Warsop for show purposes the villagers proudly hauled from the place of obscurity their primitive manual pump, which has done service for 85 years.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2897, 16 June 1925, Page 1
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196NEWS IN BRIEF. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2897, 16 June 1925, Page 1
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