NEWS IN BRIEF
Charges in nursing-homes in the West End of London may be as much as thirty guineas a week, with all sorts of extras.
Sturgeons are the weakest of all fish in proportion to their size. A sturgeon is helpless if attacked by a small swordfish.
Railway travellers in Britain during August, the busiest of the holiday months, were 17 per cent, fewer than in August, 1925. The arrival of her third set of twins chronicled in a cablegram from Berlin has increased the family of a Cologne gravedigger’s wife to 24 and made it the largest family in Germany. The frau’s achievement has been closely approached in New Zealand. The largest number of children born to New Zealand family, according to the latest completed returns, was 20. The age of the mother was 52, and the duration of the marriage was 32 years. The returns quote the case of a family of 17 as that of the greatest number of surviving children of one family. The age of the mother in this case was 47, and the marriage had reached the 29th year. In the same returns it was noticed that there were nearly 400 New Zealand families where the number of surviving children exceeded twelve.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3593, 1 February 1927, Page 1
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209NEWS IN BRIEF Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3593, 1 February 1927, Page 1
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