GENERAL NEWS.
RAISING PROFESSIONAL FEES. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received December 31, 7.20 p.m. London, Dec. 29. Solicitors have been permitted to advance their fees. Barristers have advanced twenty per cent, and doctors have advanced by fifty per cent.
THE COTTON BOOM. Received December 31, 7.20 p.m. London, Dee. 2ft. The cotton boom exhibits an amazing record of fortunes made unexpectedly in a few hours. In many cases managers and foremen have combined in the purchase, knowing that tremendous profits were assured for some years. Two hundred mills have changed hands. Frequently five times the mills' 1918 value has been paid. —Times Service. FOOD SHORTAGE IN AFRICA. Received Jan. 1, 12.5 a.m. Capetown, Dec. 31. Owing to prolonged and severe drought a famine is feared in the native territories. The food shortage affects about a million natives. The Government is organising a system of relief, including the distribution of maize by mechanical transport.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 2 January 1920, Page 6
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