The savage inhabitants of the Dutch Island of Nias, off the coast of Sumatra, still practise head-hunting and decorate their homes with human skulls. In the new Devonshire House, London’s newest block of palatial flats, there are fourteen lifts, a bank within tho building, and separate bathrooms to all bedrooms. Maltese dogs, the little white-inured animals so popular as pets in Victorian days, are no longer to he found on their native island. They were all experted for breeding. The British Office of Works has accepted the offer of the College of Pestology to rid Hyde Park of caterpillars by removing the cocoons.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLVII, Issue 10826, 22 January 1927, Page 6
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