GENERAL NEWS.
BRITISH BIRTH-RATE. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyrlsht. London, March 24. The returns of the Registrar-General for England and Wales for the third quarter of 1919 show 82,000 marriages and 30,000 babies above the corresponding quarter of 191S, while the infant mortality has dropped and the birthrate risen in record proportions. WIRELESS TELEPHONES. London, March 24 Owing to the chronic congestion of the Anglo-Dutch cables the Netherlands Chamber of Commerce requested Marconi to investigate wrireless telephones. It is understood the system js adaptable to ordinary ii> tnimentBoth Governments are favorable. The probable rate will be one shilling per minute. FRENCH DEPUTIES' SALARIES. Paris, March 24. The Chamber, after a lengthy discussion, increased the salary of the deputies to meet the cost of living. • The Builders' and Navvies' Unions decided that, as the deputies had increased their salaries, the workers should claim I increased wages.
MEMORIAL TO FALLENLondon, March 24. A tnoetinpr hold at Westminster inaugurated the Bonds of Remembrance Association, for the purpose of planting trees in memory of the fallen.
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Taranaki Daily News, 29 March 1920, Page 6
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