NEWS IN BRIEF.
Slandaul stipends of Welsh clergy have been increased to £335. Only .10,000 Frenchmen pay income lax mi an income of £ISOO or over. -Xew vehicles are going on the British roads al (lie rate of 4000 a week. A young whale nearly 20fl long .was lately washed up on Ramsgate beach. One of the new British arterial roads is carrying 14,000 tons of trallie a day. February of this year, although dull and wet in Britain, was the warmest on record. Convict ions for drunkenness in Britain fell from 57,030 in 1021, to 50,121 lust year. J lie population of Nottingham
contains, il is estimated, four times as manv women as men.
If is said that if London’s smoke could be abolished, £7,0DD,000 a year would he saved.
The British Broadcasting Company gives about ten thousand talks a year throughout the country. Six million sheep and two million horses and cattle graze in the United Stntos National Forests. A weekly turnover of I HO.OOO eggs is expected at a depot at Writ lie, instituted by Essex farmers.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 30502, 24 June 1926, Page 4
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180NEWS IN BRIEF. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 30502, 24 June 1926, Page 4
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