GENERAL GABLE MEWS
P«aw Anrcoiaiion—Bj Telegraph—Copyricht LONDON, -July 23. A. debate m the House of Lords on the Bill removing disqualifications on women entering the professions indicated that many peers desired that all peeresses be given the right to sit in the House of •Lords, and not only those who have been recently created.—The Times. _ c PARIS, July .22. Professor Gautier has reported to the Academy of Sciences that the use of chemical fluorine will increase the average yield of wheat 13 per cent., oats 12 per cent., and potatoes 58 per cent.—A. and N.Z. Cable. > NEW YORK, July 22. Motor petrol of from 60deg to 62deg test sold during the week ended July 19 at 24£ cents per gallon wholesale and 27 cents retail. Special petrols sold wholesale at 33£ cents for 7£.leg to 76dcg spirit in steel drums, and at 31£ cents for 58deg to 70deg in steel.—A. and N.Z. Cable. . . SYDNEY, Julv 28. Statistics show the birth rate in Sydney for tho past year is 24.-87 per cent, 'below the previous five years. The death rate is also lower, being 4.8 per cent, below the average of preceding five years. Official: At the end of" December last the population of the metropolitan area was 792,700, an increase for the year of 15,400. J
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 17689, 29 July 1919, Page 5
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