NEWS AND NOTES.
After 22 hours in the dust eonluhicr of an electric vacuum clifauer at Nottingham, a kitten was found none the worse for its experience. The cook’s galley on board H.M.S, Nelson is uot much larger than that of a 12-roomed house, hut it supplies food for 1300 meu every day. A British-built oil-elec trie locomotive has created a world’s record non-stop run of 800 miles in South America on the Buenos Aires Great Southern liaihvay. President Hoover has announced his intention of asking 1 (Congress tor 11,000,000 to provide more suit able prison accommodation in various parts of America. Gut of 2100 applicants for admission to the ICity of London Police Force in 1028, only 70 were physically lit for appointment. Madrid is the “latest” capital in the world. People lunch at three, have tea at seven, and dine at 10.15. Theatres begin at 11, and end about 1.15 in the morning. The Japanese statesman Count Goto, leader of Japan’s Boy Scouts, who has died at 73, received on the eve of his death a flag from the scouts of Western Australia.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4413, 11 February 1930, Page 1
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185NEWS AND NOTES. Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4413, 11 February 1930, Page 1
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