NEWS IN BRIEF.
Twelve Welsh miners have been trained as London waiters. A Children’s Corner has been opened in Derby’s new cathedral. Eighty per cent, of Portuguese peasants can neither read nor write. There are how eight million members of the British Friendly Societies. The light from a star takes oyer three years to. reach the, earth, Nearly 9000 wireless licences have been issued free to blind people in Britain. A Minehead man destroyed about half-a-million wasps in 144 nests in , two months. One hundred thousand hoys in India have become Scouts in the •last five years. A mother killed by a car in London recently threw her little child clear of the vehicle and saved it. , Glasgow children are as fortunate as London children. They, too,
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Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3900, 29 January 1929, Page 1
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127NEWS IN BRIEF. Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3900, 29 January 1929, Page 1
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