GENERAL NOTES
According to a recent census, there are hoav 38,507 motor vehicles in Czceho Slovakia, or one for each 401 of the inhabitants. • **■■* A corps of men,, known as ' * Road Militia," is being organised in Italy to control traffic.on the first-class roads of the country. • * * Mr G. Bernard ShaAv is reported to have said that "the only way to pronounce the Avord 'automobile' is to call it a motor car." # # » Cars left unattended in the streets of Scarborough are being driven away by the police, and released only on r payment of an impounding fee,. # * * ' The cynic informs us that it usually takes several weeks to train a Avomtfn to drive, and that afterwards she can do quite 20,000 words to the gallon. .. • * # # The Spanish Government is to make an annual grant of £10,000 towards the cost of upkeep of the San Sebastian Circuit, which will be in future a national course. # # « .Wife: I just bought a set of Shakespeare. Husband (angrily): Hoav many times have I told you not to buy those foreign tyres?"
SOinch white sheetings, 2/- to 5/11 yard; pillow cases, 9d to 2/11; down quilts, 25/- to 110/-.—Next the Bank
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Ellesmere Guardian, Volume XLVI, Issue 3230, 22 June 1928, Page 2
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195GENERAL NOTES Ellesmere Guardian, Volume XLVI, Issue 3230, 22 June 1928, Page 2
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