Showing all the science, speed and sound defence which lias made him a dual professional boxing champion of the Dominion, C. Ilanliam (Waimatc) retained his light-heavyweight title at Wellington last evening by decisively outpointing G. Allen, who is now in the army. A canvass for scrap metal in the Bohangina Valley resulted in the collection of ap proximatcly two and a half tons, including a big percentage of copper and aluminium The first air mail letter, sent to Beniamin Franklin when he was living in France in 1785. was carried in a balloon bc.'Oos the English Channel.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 292, 14 November 1941, Page 6
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