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New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11650, 15 October 1923, Page 8

While a briar root was being cut to make pipo bowls, a stone of fair size was difoovored; geologists say that this stone mvst have boon imprisoned in the root for 1000 yeirs. The three largest gas companies in London now tmpplv more than threo times as many pas-hcating and cooking stoves as twenty yeirs ago, when the figure stood at 023,185. When does a boy become o man ? A committee of the Camberwell Borough (Eng.) has decided that th© change takes place at the age of eighteen. French novelists formerly wrote at great length; one novel, entitled "Gand Cyrus,” ran to ten volumes, but this was exceeded by another, which filledi no fewer than twenty-three volumes There are altogether about 40ft street telephones kiosks in England, practically all of them In the provinces.