NEWS IN BRIEF.
Motor-cars to the number of -1,000,000 arc now manufactured in America every year. Of these only about one-quainter are exported.
Street piano-organs are fitted
with cylinders, each of which plays ten tunes and holds 4000 pins. These pins are inserted by hand. Nine first-class honours award in the Oxford Senior examinations were all won by pupils of the Portsmouth Girls’ Secondary School. If a rate collector refuses to give up his books to the municipal authority. employing him in Britain, lie is iinblo to a fine of £SO. Continual discussion of their ailments among women at social gatherings is condemned by an expert in Britain as likely to develop nerve troubles. Hundreds of packets of plumage, including peacock’s feathers and egret plumes, are seized every year by the British Customs officials as contraband. Expensively dressed and provided with a feeding-bottle, a baby gi'l was placed in a motor-car left unattended for a short time in the streets of Pauplorspury.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3515, 24 July 1926, Page 4
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162NEWS IN BRIEF. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3515, 24 July 1926, Page 4
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