HORSES AGAIN

Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 17 June 1933, Page 11

HORSES AGAIN

Demand in Great Britain

rpHE value of the heavy horse to British in- "*■ dustry' was emphasised by Mr Thomas Forshaw at a gathering in connection with the Shire Horse Show in London. There was a big demand for Shires, he said, and there were not enough good horses even for agricultural work. The introduction of the wheat quota would mean that a greater amount of land would be broken up, and there were noi. enough horses to supply such a demand. The Shire horse was greatly favoured for work in the cities and towns. A walk through , London would reveal that the majority of the draught horses in use .were descended from the Shire strain. Out of every 1000 horses working ini London, 950 were descended from the Shire’breed. With the wheat, quota arid the proposals of the Salter Report, it was possible that there would be a very big demand for heavy horses. The recommendations in the report, of course, were not for the benefit of "the horse, but for the railways. The horse, however, would undoubtedly benefit. The increase of the commercial classes at the show was an indication of the large demand for draught horses for use in' the streets of cities and towns. He had been informed that one of the four great railway companies contemplated a big increase in its horse transport. It was being found that horse transport was far more economical than motor transport, and he suggested that municipal and other authorities should make greater use of the horse if they' wished to keep expenses down.

JpTRTXG recent renovation work in the Church of 'St. Catherine, at. Hamburg, two ceiling paintings dating from the middle of the 17tli century were discovered under three or four layers of paint. One of the paintings is apparently an apotheosis of the Peace of Westphalia, while the other depicts the triumph of music. The figures, of colossal size, betray the hand of a master, but it has not yet been possible To identify' the artist.

T HE Administrative County of London consists of nearly 117 'square miles, with a population of about 4,400,000 people. It comprises the County- of London, the City’ of London, the Inner Temple and the Outer Temple. The estimated population of the City of London is in the neighbourhood of 11,000. In the 1021 census the populations of the Inner - ami Outer Temple were given as 152 and 130 respectively'. “Greater London” has a population of approximately' 8,500,000, and, with the growth of new supurbs, the expansion of housing schemes and the establishment of factories, this total is very’ much on the increase.

T hf origin of wedding cake goes back hundreds of years. Xn ancient Koine marriage was effected by' the simple process of the bride and bridegroom breaking a cake of bread and eating it together. This, in time, developed into the bride cake. The bride cut it because it was the duty of the woman to prepare food. Everybody' knows the superstition about sleeping on wedding cake. Country girls in England, even in this age of cynicism, look forward to the weddings of their families, so that they' ma.v get a piece of wedding cake, which, if placed under the pillow, has the power to produce in dreams the vision of a prospective husband.

DESCRIPTION of the bombard- ~ meat of Paris by the special long range naval gun ‘‘Big Bortlia” at the end of March, 101 S, is given by the “Lokal Anzcigcr.” It states that the ex-Kaiser -was present to witness the firing of the first shot at 7.16 a.m. on March 23. During the firing the gun barrel was raised to 60 degrees, and the shell, it is stated, travelled the SO miles to Paris in three minutes. In all 259 shells were fired at the •French capital. The gun-barrel was 111 ft long.