NEWS IN BRIEF
Today’s anniversaries— Treaty of Utrecht, 1713 Bishop Selwyn died, 1878. Anniversaries to-morrow— Lord Rodney’s victory off Dominica, 1782. Bagdad captured by British, 1917. A gander believed to be 100 years old has died on a Yorkshire farm. Portsmouth prison, England, closed IS months ago, is to be reopened for long-term prisoners. Official tests go to prove that the average time taken by a London telephone operator to answer a subscriber’s call is 4.8 seconds. Horsehair fetches such a high price in Temuco, a town of Chile, that stealing horses’ tails is quite a common crime. Even the mounts of the police do not escape the pilferers. There are 150 different species of shark to be found in the seas and the big rivers of the world. The average length of a shark is Bft, but monsters of 45ft. in length have been caught.
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Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XXX, Issue 8451, 11 April 1933, Page 1
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