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Otautau Standard and Wallace County Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 210, 11 May 1909, Page 7

i Women m Asia Minor earn 6d to 7^d for ten hours' work. j Olive trees 1,000 years old are to be ! found growing m Turkey. j In Japan, 5,000,000 people depend upon the sea for their livelihood. Nearly 167,000,000 tons of coal are consumed m England every year. The Danube is 1,725 miles long, drains 315,300 square miles, and carries four-fifths of the commerce of Eastern Europe. Returns show that there were 9,997 Chinese on the Rand on March 31. The oKjef constable of the West Riding India does not produce any horses fit • fou military service. At Tiree (m the Hebrides) £600 worth of kelp or burnt seaweed is exported eveiy fortnight.