NEWS IN BRIEF
To-day's anniversaries— Admiral Peary afc North Pole, 1909 Jap, troops occupy Vladivostok, 1920. Anniversaries to-morrow— U.S.A. declared war on Germany, 1917. Road deaths showed a slight decrease in Britain in 1932, but the*o were still 18 every day throughout the country. Heel-prints, are taken of all babies born in the hospitals in many American cities to avoid the risk of mistakes in identity. Telephone, telegraph and other supplies, mostly of British make, to the value of nearly £10,000,000 were ordered by the British Post Office last year. Of the 317,389 civil servants In British Government departments, 238,925 are men and 78,464 women. These figures also include 157,794 exService men, 47,635 classified as disabled. i . | Members who are persistently absent from sittings of the House of Commons are liable to imprisonment in the Clock Tower at the order of the Speaker. The last time this happened was in 1826.
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Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XXX, Issue 8449, 6 April 1933, Page 1
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