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.Mr. Stanley Baldwin (the London Times says), has given £SOOO towards the £25.000 ‘.required for the extension of Kidderminster Infirmary and ( hildvon s Hospital. The meeting uf the Cook County Council which was called tor this afternoon, to deal with the applications for the position of County clerk, lasped tor want ol a quorum. A meeting has now boon called for Saturday morning, when a final selection will he made from the three applicants who have been left in. The I’aivis-Suir has just completed a peculiar scheme to test public honesty. (Spied an g 100 names, representative of every walk in life, from politicians to chimney-sweeps, they sent to each 5f in stamps, with a. note to till'd effect that it was money owed. Only thirty returned the stamps to the address given.
Commander. Dammit, who was in charge of the salvage of the £5,000,000 bullion lost with the auxiliary cruiser Laiire-ntic in Length S willy hi 1917, (old the Institution of Mechanical Engineers that of the 3211 hairs of gold lost. 305/ had been recovered 1 at «. cost of 2g per cent., and work towards recovering the others would he resumed shortly.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16423, 6 May 1924, Page 9
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195TOWN EDITION Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16423, 6 May 1924, Page 9
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