NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1742, 18 October 1917, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF.

“When the war ends,” says Mr J. L. Garvin (foremost of London editors), “we have to find work for 8,000,000 persons, and build, at the smallest computation, 150,000 houses,-with a lack of raw material for the purpose. Prance and Belgium cannot wait for their rebuilding, but must take the first comers. It is the most imperative and urgent problem Great Britain ever had to face.”

A huge British aeroplane-in a recent test carried a pilot and 20 passengers to a height of 7,000 feet. This machine, it is understood, is to be equipped with six machine guns and 1,500 pounds of bombs—a veritable dreadnought of the air-. It is typical of the big machines which the British and French arc now building, ostensibly for the purpose of carrying on raids deep into German territory as an answer to the Zeppelin and aeroplane depredations.

An old man, who has been living in retirement on his pension, recently decided to return to his work in the boot trade. He had heard a lot about the shortage of clickers, and he was determined, old or not, to help maintain efficiency and do his bit. This patriotism was mentioned at the First Auckland Military Service Board sitting recently. Counsel remarked that the man, who was 78 years of age, had gone back to his job from a loyal sense of duty. “He has at that age,” declared counsel, “returned to do his bit —the honest toil of Availing years —and I say it is to the eternal disgrace of the New Zealand Government that, as a result, the pensions of the old man and of his wife have been cut down because he is ' trying to help his country in these strenuous times.”

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