NEWS IN BRIEF.
Chinchilla is now almost the rarest of all furs. Bishops of London have lived at Fulham for 1300 years. The London telephone area covers 750 square miles and 107 exchanges. Motor vehicles in Great Britain increased by over 140,000 last year. One person in every seven arrested in Morayshire last year was a tramp. Over 50 tons of leather are used annually for recovering footballs used in the United Kingdom. Trees arc to be planted along twenty-four miles of new roadway in Middlesex this year. Haare Taueki, aged 60 years, and leading chief of the Mauopoko tribe in the Horowlieuua, was buried on Wednesday in the family cemetery on the hill at the side of Horowhenua Lake. The Rev. A. Perciha and T. Eruera ministers of Katana, conducted the obsequies, in which about 200 Maoris and 17 pakehas took part. —Chronicle.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3025, 20 April 1926, Page 1
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144NEWS IN BRIEF. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3025, 20 April 1926, Page 1
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