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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1706, 22 December 1919, Page 5

A.V ELECTRIC TOWNSHIP. Oruo of tho most interesting- of tlio national housing schemes so far put in hvud by tlio Public Utility Socities in England is that known :as tho Swanpool Garden Suburb, near Lincoln. It will possess many novel features. The lighting, heating', and cooking o.rrungetnents will bo supplied by means of i lcetiicity and wasto steam from adjacent works, and en complotion the suburb will be a little township without a coal fire, without a gas fire, and with no burners, no gas rings, and no gas cookers. Swanpool suburb is intended mainly for tho use of tlio employees of a largo engineering firm, and waste heat and steam from the works will be utilised in the installation of a combined system of central heating and hot-water supply for every house. y Electricity, generated at a central station, will be supplied to each house for lighting and cooking purposes, pnd will -also pro.vidc 3treot illumination and power for laun-

dries,: sewago pumping, and other public works. 100,000 GERMAN'S DESERTED. One hundred thousand soldiers and officers of the German armies in the flelc' preferred the relative ponco and quiet of neutral countries to jh.9 glorious dream of a triumphant entrance into Paris. There aro 45,000 deserters in Switzerland, o-ccord-injr to a report of. tho Gorman Foreign Oflico Fully as many have gone to Holland and the Scandinavian countries, and tho odd 10,000 have managed to find their way into overseas countries. The. Gorman Covornnjent has lately proclaimed a general amnesty for all deserters.

You will quickly decidu what to give for a Christmas present, by taking; a look round Collinson :incl Ctinnintrhiime'shuKC gift display. Handworked doyicys, in dainty Maltese star pattern, 3in. ncross, 3s 3d each; handworked crochet doyloys. pretty pansy pattern, 7it). across, 13 lid each; pretty crochet mats in rosa and sholl pattorn, lOin. across, 3s lid oach; round tablo centres, hand crochetted, with dainty raised rose, and sholl dosiptn, P,oin., 15s fed oachj'handaomo square bowl mat, in raised rose' ,whoi;|s and ahull, pal tern, 16i«; ly W\n.,WW.~AM.