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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 83, 8 April 1933, Page 10

! Photographs are taken at the rate ‘ of 4000 a second by a new camera invented by two American professors. The London Fire Brigade last year answered 4258 calls. There were 1964 • false alarms and 663 malicious calls. ; ■ Measuring only one-fortieth of an i , inch, a spider native to Australia is i I claimed as the smallest inFee* of this [ •* class. j

What is said to be thw first new invention in stairways in 6000 years has been announced by a French engineer. His stairs may be envisaged by imagining an ordinary flight of steps sliced vertically in two, and one of -he two narrow sections • : >d th- height of halt a step. By stepping alternately on each side, according to the snv.rr.ar. the user lifts his weight with lejj jerkiness and fatigue. The stairs are also more compact than the usual type.

The birth-rate for England and Wales last year was the lowest on record, being only 15.3 per 1000 of the population. Tn disposing of a deceased man’s prol pertv, a Pennsylvania sheriff sold a i small motor-car for 2s 6d, while a horse I fetched 24d. | i .

English shares with German the, “popularity” place among foreign languages taught in the schools of Soviet Russia. The number of road deaths in Great Britain for last year showed a decrease on 1931, but there were more injuries resulting from road accidents. London’s figures for both forms of casualty were less, but in parts of Cheshire, Hampshire and the West Biding of Yorkshire there wer increases in both deaths and injuries.