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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16908, 23 March 1929, Page 3

An electric iron loft switched pn was responsible for Hie Invercargill Fire Brirde receiving a call. The-house was emptv and upon investigation it was discovered that an electric iron switched on had burned its way through the table and had ignited a portion of tlm flooring and wall.

The negro can never he ignored in thinking of America. in the t'tsj- place tliere are “too many oi him -1 vi.IHAMJU; or U!.090,C00. Tile negro is not '‘dying out." The statistician of the Alelropolit.fin Foe Insurance ('oni pany, at a recent infer-racial conference, stated- “Tim general death rate of tlm negro m slid about two-thirds higher than that of the white-. I.ml this excess is largely concentrated a I tlm younger ages, and is due lo causes which we understand., and which lend themselves to control. ’ . H a pleasure to announce that lynching is on the deeresse. though small. The numher last wav was It. a comparatively lmv record, tbe nearest, low record boj'ng in 10?4, With number 16. Forty yearn ago Urn numher was 145 ! There are girls and pretty girls—there ore girls ami Rexona Giris- bow ear. you tell them? By their good skin and hair--by tho look of dean healthiness and wholesome freshness of person, and altogether attractiveness which distinguishes the Itexoaa Girl from just plain girls