GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1973, 6 May 1919, Page 1

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

-BANEY’S CHOICE, . James Baney, of Kansas City, Missouri, must marry within DO days in order to secure £IB,OOO willed him on this condition by his aunt. HARD LABOUR FOR MAGISTRATES. “Before a man becomes a magistrate be should have three mouths’ hard labour as part of bis training for the office,” suggested the secretary of the Women's Freedom League in London, at a meeting held to discuss penal reform.

ROOF GARDENS FOR AIRSHIPS. “There will probably be a roof garden, access to which will be by a lift, in the passenger airsliip of the future,” said Lieut.-Colonel Lockwood March, R.A.F., at a. meeting of the Camera Club in London, “it has been estimated by Messrs Vickers,” be slated, “that the passenger fare to A. meric a by airship will be £-18, against £lls b;s aeroplane.”

“RIVER CLYDE'’ V.C.'s. Tu order iu commemorate the beaching of the River Clyde at Gallipoli a Liverpool shipowner has entrusted the Merchant Service Guild with tiie presentation of a special war medallion in bronze lo those who were serving - in the vessel at the time and were awarded (he V.C. for valour in effecting the binding - . Of the six members of the crew who received the decoration only three survive-—Captain Edward Unwin, R.N., Lieutenant George McSampson, and Lieutenant TV. St. A. Melleson. The medallion is the work of Mr R. Carter Preston, the designer of the national memorial war plaque.

“A GIRL TO HIMSELF.” With reference lo the proclamation for the nationalisation of women in Bolshevist Russia, the following is the text of a document found on a Red Army commissary captured at the front: — “Hereby I certify that the bearer is allowed (he right of acquiring a girl to himself, and no one may oppose this iu any way. He is invested with full power which I certify.”

CLEME MCE AC’S BOOK. “As soon as the problems of peace have been .solved,” declared M. Clemenccau, “and I have finished my task, 1 shall take a rest that, after 50 years of politics, I think I have well earned. And in my retirement 1 shall write a book which perhaps no one will read, but which I, at all events, shall be glad lo have written.”