NEWS IN BRIEF
Average cost earnings of all wage-earners in the mining industry in Britain for the last three years show a big variation. In the year ended September 3(Jth, 1925, the figure was £132 2s sd; in 1928, £.11.3 19s sd; and in 1929, £ll7 4s 3d. Among the foods used for iho animals at the Loudon Zoo, whose yearly bill for foodstuffs amounts to £15,000, are the following items: —Bananas 187,000; hay, 1444 tons; .‘;rapes, 3 tons; milk, 10,000 gallons; mealworms, 310 lbs; eggs, 20,000, and 120 tons of clover . To celebrate the inaugurating of lhe tirst complete radio-telegraph circuit between London and San Francisco without relay over - a wire system, greetings were exchanged between the Lord Mayor of ■London and Mr James Rolph, Mayor of San Francisco. Microphones so tiny that they can be worn in the buttonhole are now being used in Hollywood for making “talkies.” This means that scenes can bo taken in streets or anywhere else. The microphones are connected by wireless with sound-recording apparatus.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4445, 29 April 1930, Page 1
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171NEWS IN BRIEF Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4445, 29 April 1930, Page 1
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