The United States is said to 'be pra* eminent aa a swine-producing nation-, be« ing credited with approximately 50,000.000 Iwad out of a world supply of lees than 150,000,000. Germany ranks second with about 22,000,000, European Russia has about 11.000.000. Franco 7,000,000, Austria had 5.000.000 in 1900, and Hungary 7,000,000 in 1395. No other country w credited with as many -as 5,000,000. ~ Admirers of David Livingstone all ovob the world will in 1913 ce-iobrate the cenr tena.ry of his birth. Livingstone, before ho took his doctor's degree, was a student of the Charing Cross Hospital, London l , and an endeavour is to be made to restore the hospital to its former measure of usee fuln-r«f>—which it has hardly -reached foj several years owing to lack of funds —a* a memorial to him. A David Livingstone Centenary Million Shilling Fund is to bo opened, with the- object of rcooemnfr the wards (containing 87 bed*), which have bvl to bo closed. , .
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Otago Witness, Issue 2949, 21 September 1910, Page 29
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