It is not only in the cinema and the nursery that the celluloid peril exists. Hundreds of cars and other vehicles were brought to a standstill in the Mersey Tunnel recently when a lorry loaded with films burst into flames. Perhaps it will be thought advisable to forbid the passage of highly inflammable cargoes through this unique highway. The population of Turkey is rapidly increasing. According to the Turkish Embassy the growth is at the rate of about 200,000 a year, but the census gives a higher figure. In Europe there are 1,100,000 Turks, in Asia, 15,100,000; a total of 16,200,000. At the census of 1927 the total was 13,600,000. The pressure of water on any body plunged into it is about lib to the square inch for every 2ft of depth. Several fine Bushmen paintings have been discovered by a picnic party in a cave near Swellendam, South Africa.
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Southland Times, Issue 22993, 12 September 1936, Page 19
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