NEWS IN BRIEF.
Aliens maintained by London parishes in mental hospitals numbered 002 at the end of last year. Marriage is now forbidden in China under the age of 18; previously the legal age had been 14. Telephone subscribers in Canada now total over 1,037, 550, more than one in nine of the population. The L.M.S Railway is building new engines at the rate of one for every working day this year, * A Durham miner, Mr. Martin Thompson, now 90 years of age, has worked in the coal mine for 73 years. Turkish newspapers are to be used in the tight against bribery. The names of traders who offer bribes to Government servants in order to get their goods out of the Customs on favourable terms or for the purpose of helping along a contract are to be published. British factories turned out 23,000 tons of beet sugar last year, though the industry is only an infant one. However, it is only half a pound a head for every inhabitant of the British Isles, and the figure must, he multiplied by 20 before it begins to make an appreciable dent in sugar imports.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2905, 4 July 1925, Page 1
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193NEWS IN BRIEF. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2905, 4 July 1925, Page 1
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