NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1859, 1 August 1918, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Liverpool Food Committee has given an additional ration to a hoy of twenty stone. A hoot eighty ships of our fleet are now supplied with einematographs to entertain the men. Owing to shortness of provisions in. Norway, hardened whale fat is being used for margarine. It is estimated that the yearly damage done to food by rats in England is close on £40,000,000. Major F. Dunn has lost five sons in the war, besides two sons-in-law. He has another son serving. The perfectly round pearls are the most valuable, next come the pear-shaped, and lastly the eggshaped. An enterprising committee in Edinburgh has collected forty-six tons of sera]) metal, and sold it for £274. Over 1,000,000 women have come into employment during; the war who were not thus engaged previously. A rifle bullet is (ravelling at its greatst speed not as it leaves the muzzle but at about ten feet in front of it. A brick house is more durable than one of stone. A well-construct-ed brick house will outlast one built of granite. Green wood contains fully 45 per cent, of water, and thorough seasoning usually expels but 35 per cent, of this fluid. The specie strong-room of an ocean liner is usually 16ft, long. 10 ft. wide, and -Bft. high, and formed of .'--inch steel plates. It is officially estimated that at the fall of Kut-el-Amara we loststores worth approximately £99,048, and £113,000 in cash. The scholars of one Tottenham Council (London) school invested £1,091 in War Savings certificates on the local “Tank Day.” • It is stated that the decrease in people’s weight in England is, to a large extent, caused by the decreased consumption of sugar. The War Office has saved 00,000 Inns of steel by using wood pulp board instead of tin for the packing of soldiers’ jam rations. Our submarines have made more | (ban 40 successful attacks on enemy war vessels, and 270 successful attacks on other enemy craft. At the funeral, at Ashford (Kent), of Mr J. Rossiter, the mourners included seven wounded sons-in-law, who came direct from hospitals. Home of the British battleships have searchlights so powerful that a. newspaper may he read by their light by a person eighteen miles awa v.