NEWS BRIEF

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1954, 20 March 1919, Page 4

NEWS BRIEF

The English national debt before I lie war was £700,000,(UK).

Seven V.C.’s have been won by Harrow School during the war. The United States produces 00 per cent, of the world’s supply of raw cotton. Lectures on demobilisation and reconstruction are being given in camps in France. The purchasing value of a sovereign in Great Britain is about Ss 7d compared with before tbe war. The British Government arc aiming at an output of 1,000 new cottages a day, a maximum of 300,000 in a vear.

A campaign for the utilisation of kitchen and (able refuse lias been inaugurated in the United States. Figures show that in one (on of garbage there is sufficient glycerine to make the expl.mve charge for fourteen 75-mil!imeler shells, enough “fatly acid” to manufacture 1 5 pounds of soap, fertiliser elements to grow eight bushels of wheat, and a score of other valuable materials essential in the manufacture of munitions. The following statistics of (ho work done nr Southampton from August 9th, 1914, to November 10th, 1918, have been given by the Mayor; —Total number of persons embarked and disembarked, including troops, sick and wounded, and prisoners of war, 7,000,000; horses and mules, 821,000; guns and limbers, 14,000; motor lorries and other vehicles, 3.10,000; stores, supplies, and ammunition, 3,500,000 tons; ships handled, 15,000.