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Inangahua Times, 22 August 1931, Page 3

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(United Press Assn —By Electric Telegraph—C opyright.) Triplets’ Birthday Celebrated Reed 8 30 a m London, Aug 21 Triplets, Charles Mayhew, of Kiog's Cross Road London, a boot maker, anJ two brothers, one in Australia and the other in Canada, celebrated the 90th birthday of .Charles, the eldest boy by half an hour. He made boots and shoes for ;he late Charles Dickens.

Meuse Valley Death Fog Directors of Chemical Works Fined Reed 8 30 a m Brussels, Aug 21 As • sequel to the death fog in Meuse Valley on the 18th December, 1930, involving seventy-five death?, heavy fines were imposed on the managing director and another director of the chemical works in Leige district, wherefrom the poisonous gases are stated so have emanated.

National War Memorial Reed 8 30 am Brussels, Aug 21 The Times* Berlin correspondent states that the National War Memorial Committee has opened a competition for also “ artistically active German citizens,** for the most suitable design for a war memorial which it is proposed to erect on a beautiful piece of secludpd woodland near Waimir. The designs must be kept within the simplicity demanded by the needs uf he times and the dignity of the i rubiect.