The unemployed on May 20 totalled 811,000, which is a reduction of 92,000 in a month and 611,000 in a year. The reduction does not represent the full increase in workers because many have been transferred from other industries, states a London message. Composer of the world-famous lullaby “Rock-a-Bye Baby.” Mrs Effie Canning Carltpn died in hospital recently,>ac the age of 81. Although she wrote a lullaby which mothers all oyer the world have sung to their babies, she never had a child of her own. I
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 166, 13 June 1940, Page 8
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