The White Star liner Majestic, 56,000 tons, the lamest, steamer in the world, tor her supply of epps requires tin 1 entire produce ol a poultry farm with 10,000 head of pood laying stock, her consumption lor a round trip beinp SO,OOO, and for the year it reaches the enormous total of 1.-100,000. Ihis one item of the Maiestic’s colossal • stores woidd provide direct employment lor 100 persons over and above the indirect work entailed in handlinp and carryinp. It has been brought to the knowledge of some lovers of Robert Rums in London that his preat-prandson, Robert Hums Hutchinson, for some years an accountant in British Columbia, his wile, and two younper children are in distress owinp to the loss of employment, consequent on a serious depression in trade. A special committee has been formed to brinp the circumstances to the knowledpe of all lovers of Burns’ works. The honorary treasurer of the fund is Colonel H. B. Hans Hamilton, 5 Cranley Gardens.
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Dunstan Times, Issue 3129, 7 August 1922, Page 2
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