About 60 applications have been received from farmers intending to taEe a course at the Farmers’ Farm School, which will commence on May 12 at Solway. Accommodation is available for 90. A proposal is under consideration to instal electric light under the grandstand. During the week-end the shop of F. Knott, hairdresser and tobacconist, Auckland, was broken into, and £l7 worth of tobacco and cigarettes stolen. The door was forced with a jemmy. A snow fall over London, lasting tw'O or three hours, brings down with it hundred* of tons of suspended impurities. Upon test, a gallon of melted snow yielded three and a half grains of .sulphuric acid, one-tenth of a grain of ammonia, and thirty grains of soot, and other impurities. Physical disfigurements are apt to effect the nerves, especially among ladies, say? a well-known French surgeon.
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Wairarapa Age, 7 May 1924, Page 5
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