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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 71, Issue 291, 8 December 1928, Page 16 (Supplement)

Industries arc springing up in British i towns and villages so rapidly that even in the most rural districts factories may be seen. Tickets issued by the Great Western Railway during .1927 numbered 100,000,000. Placed end to end, they would stretch a distance of 2022 miles. Flamingoes and birds of similar structure take time to get up speed to fly. Hence it is that they can be kept in open enclosures at zoological gardens. Tn Russia there is a “language island,” where about, a million and ahalf German-speaking people form a community founded in the first case by Catherine the Great. There arc estimated to be 250,000 shops open in Britain every Sunday; of these 40,000 arc in London area. This Sunday trading involves work for 2,000,000 people. There arc fifteen divorces for every hundred marriages in the United States of America; the majority of wives who divorce their husbands do so on the plea of cruelty or desertion.