NEWS IN BRIEF.
At a. school in Birmingham, girls arc I aught to type to music-, which is said to “create uniformity and accuracy’-' and also to induce a good speed. The Army Bakeries at Aldershot, tatterick, Chatham, Shomcliffe,
and Tidwortb bake 26,500,0001 b. of bread each year. The Hour costs -1 0,000-’.
Accorli.ng to a Love on me, it Commiitee, (be total number of mentally- defective ,p-|i\sons of both vexes in England and Wales is at least 300,000.
Few subscribers would think to return a book after the lapse of 43 years, but the other day two volumes were handed in to an astonished assistant librarian at the Wanganui Library. The man who brought the books in stated that he took them out in 1886, and, on leaving Wanganui about that time, packed them with his belongings. He had only just returned to this city nIH « long absence of 43 years. The man would not gave iiis name, but aft or leaving the books walked out again. Possibly be bad visions of being billed for keeping the books over the period allowed, a matter of merely 420, according 1 to the rules.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3990, 27 August 1929, Page 4
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193NEWS IN BRIEF. Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3990, 27 August 1929, Page 4
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