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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXV, Issue LXV, 15 November 1913, Page 11

England has 11.500 ships engaged in foreipn "trade, Germany has 2000, Japan nearly 1000, while the United States has only nine ships so engaged. A single "Dee, with all its industry, energy, and innumerable journeys, will riot collect more than a teaspobnful of honey in a season. The Glamorgan County Council recently discussed a recommendation of the Education Committee that notice of dismissal be given to the head-1 master of the^ Skewen boys' school because he persisted in claiming railway fares (4d) incurred in travelling to Neath to cash the monthly cheque for the salaries of himself and staff and had threatened legal proceedings ' to recover these expenses.

In some of the Swedish hotels women j are charged half rates, because they eat less thau men. A commercial traveller had taken a large order in Scotland for a consign* ment of hardware, and endeavored to press upon the canny Scottish manager who had given the order a box of Havana cigars. "Naw," he replied. "Dinna try to bribe a man. I couldna tak* them —and I am a member of the kirk!" "But you will accept them as a present?" "I couldna." said the Scott. "Well, then," said the. traveller, "suppose I sell you the cigars for a merely nominal sum 1-say sixpence ?" "Weel, in that case," replied the Scot, "since you nress me, arid no' likin' to, refuse an offer weel raeant, I think I'll tak' twa boxes."

"A splendid moving picture of tha Balkan wars could be shown by running; the film half-way and then reversing it," says the New York Sun. "Miss Ruth Sorensen,. who was born in. 1877, and who passed her examination as a lawyer in 1900, has been appointed to be a Judge at Hammerfest,, Norway," says the Daily Mail. "She* is the first woman Judge in Norway.** Mrs May Silver Miller, a New Tortr lady, has obtave^ 9 divorce 6n the pie* that her husnpnd w^s tx» <ir>m««t,H>aT<*d. and was always asking tor ham ami' eggs. ' !£ witness j»t Woolwich clairred t«* have married Wo thousand women unsafe 1880. He was a registrar.