FRANKLIN HIGHWAYS.
(From Our Correspondent.)
PUKKKOHE, Monday
According to estimates placed before the Franklin County Council to-day, a total of foO.oOT is to be found by the Main Highways Board as subsidies for work on hiphways within the Franklin County this financial year. The amount is made up as follows:—Maintenance, £15,300; renewals, £0589; improvements' and construction, £28,708. The council will be required to raise £16,860, bringing the total sum to be expended on °the highways to £67,463.
Midgets are almost invariably of normal size and weipht at birth. They are the children of normally sized parents. They may occur in any family. True, the odds are a million to one against. In a world population of approximately 2,000,000,000 the number of mid-cts is not more than 2000. One-sixth of them live in the United States.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 228, 27 September 1938, Page 18
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