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Under ordinary conditions 70,000 peo- ] pie are brought into Melbourne every morning from the suburbs. The number of police m Melbourne at : present is about 700. Arrangements are being made by the \ Lord Mayor of Melbourne to swear m special constables under the Unlawful As- . semblies Act of 1890. . ; Over 160 students of the Melbourne University, including many m the engi- ', neering course, have volunteered to take up any work on the railways which the Government may allot them, without pay.' The safety of the travelling public assured by the Commissioner. Lines are carefully inspected m the country immediately before any train passes over them. , In the suburbs the inspection is practi- * cally continuous. Milk 'up Id per quart. About 80,000 households m Melbourne and suburbs to be supplied each morning ' with milk. At an average of one quart to each household, it takes 20,000 gallons to go round — weight, 89 tons. Fully 500,000 words were transmitted from the Central Telegraph Office yesterday. All previous records were eclipsed, and several of the lines were blocked by the business.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 9752, 25 May 1903, Page 4
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179JOTTINGS. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 9752, 25 May 1903, Page 4
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