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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 260, 27 June 1932, Page 3

At one time the ace of spades in every pack of cards was printed at Somerset House to /ensure the duty being paid. The card was then returned to the makers to be incorporated in the pack. Sparrows recently became so numerous in the city of Budapest that they were a nuisance. So men armed with long poles went round the avenues after dark firing eharges of explosives among the trees to frighten the birds away. Church bells are a relic of a time when docks and watches were unknown, and they served a very real purpose in reminding people of the hour of prayer. In medieval times the saying of prayers at appointed hours was a duty strictly enforced by the Church. Fully equipped as a surgery and a waiting room, and carrying a dentist and a nurse, a motor dental surgery ear is now visiting the 11,000 r hildren in the 90 schools under the Isle of Ely County Council in England.