NEWS IN BRIEF
The. report of Mr W. Walker, Acting Chief Inspector of Mines in Great Britain, shows that 008,063 persons were employed in mines in 1016, as against 1)33,642 in 101.5. The output of coal was 256,375,366 tons, against 253,206,081 in 1015. A Chilian ship, the Puerto Moritt, changed hands just before the war for £3,000. She has now been sold again at Seattle for £25,000. In the last three years she has earned her value in 1914 over and over again, her last voyage bringing in £4,000.
The executive committee of the Navy League in England has passed a resolution asking the Admiralty to award a medal to all naval men who were alloat in the earlier part of the war, on the same principle as to officers and men of the Expeditionary Force up to and including the first battle of Ypres., An Italian naval engineer has designed a new type of uusinkahle cargo boat, which has been accepted by the Italian Ministry of Marine. The vessel has a displacement of 10,300 tons, and can carry 5,800 tons of cargo. It has a double skin, the space between the inner and outerihulls being filled with coal and other materials. This is intended to protect the ship from mine or torpedo.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/MH19180126.2.3
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1781, 26 January 1918, Page 1
Word count
Tapeke kupu
213NEWS IN BRIEF Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1781, 26 January 1918, Page 1
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Manawatu Herald. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in