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NEWS IN BRIEF.

Over 40,000 teapots .are now in use on the London and North Eastern Railway System. Thirty thousand more foreigners than British have settled in Canada in the last four years.

The first sheet of paper is stated to have been made from the bark of a mulberry tree in 75 A.D. A woman has died in an Essex work-house after living there 77 years. She was 94 years of age.

It is calculated that human carelessness starts a fire somewhere every minute of the day and night. In the United State 189,000 miles of roads were made between 191 G and 1923 at a cost of £90,000,000. About 9000 letters reach the British Broadcasting Company every week concerning the wireless programmes. New seams of coal have been tapped at Newstead Colliery, near Nottingham, where a new village is being built to house more miners and their families.

The London General buses, which run over 800 miles of roads, ran 143,943,201 miles in 1925, an increase of 6,892,006 on 1924. Forty nations will be represented at the next International Scout Congress, which will be held at Kandersteg, Switzerland, in August. The custom of hand-shaking has descended from the times when armed men extended an empty sword hand in token of friendship.

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https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/MH19260619.2.25

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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3050, 19 June 1926, Page 4

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Tapeke kupu
213

NEWS IN BRIEF. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3050, 19 June 1926, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3050, 19 June 1926, Page 4

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