The International Motor Yachting Union has recognised Mr. Kaye Don’s record of July J 8 in the motor-boat Miss England 111 at an official figure of 119.79 miles an hour. NEW CAREER FOR GIRLS. A firm in Britain which tests materials for making soles of boots and shoes employs girls to walk at least 12 miles a day in shoes provided with an apparatus to register the number of steps taken. After walking 300 miles the shoes are examined and the material adopted or rejected. The walking girls find it very fatiguing to keep up the required miles, and at the end of their 300 miles they are relieved by others who take their plaos» .
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Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 278, 19 August 1932, Page 11
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115Untitled Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 278, 19 August 1932, Page 11
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