Recent tests made of a fire-proof varnish for aeroplane wings are said to have been so successful that fire-proof aircraft may bo an early possibility. A young woman in Cheshire, .England, has been appointed acting surveyor to a local rural council to take the place of her brother, who is a soldier. The Marquess of Milford-llaven, better known ns Admiral Prince Louis of Battonborg. is appointed Redo Lecturer at Cambridge for the present year. The British Army Council states that discharged soldiers entitled to wear the gold braid wound distinction may continue to do so on plain clothes after, discharge. Tho Marquis o'f "Bate's mansion, near Rothesay, Scotland, cost £2,000,000,
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIII, Issue 9958, 30 April 1918, Page 6
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