When 30 apprentices were advert i* ed for by a firm in Ncwcastle-on-Tym the police had to be called in to rc gulate the crowd of 3000 boys ar.d girls who applied. Saddlery and harness-making, once quite a big village industry, is decaying sadly. There are now less than 4500 6addlerv businesses in Great Britain, employing 12,000 people, whereas double that number were employed in .1901. Captain Griffith Richards, aged St-', of Pembroke House, Bournemouth. North Wales, recently celebrated the 60th anniversary of his discharge from the crew of the Great Eastern, following her successful cable-laving in ISG6. Fresh-water oils travel a distance equal to a quarter of the earth's circumference, about 0000 miles, in their i lives*
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12610, 22 November 1926, Page 11
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118Untitled New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12610, 22 November 1926, Page 11
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