NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2057, 20 November 1919, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF.

“Is this a healthy town ?” inquired a delicate-looking visitor to a local resident the other jday, “I should say so,” remarked the L.IL “When I came here I hadn’t the strength to utler a word, I had scarcely a hair on my head, I couldn’t walk across the room, and I had to be lifted from my bed.” “Good gracious,” said the stranger, “You look A.l. now. How long have you been here?” “Oh, some years; I was born here,” was the reply.

Can you create the one word which will best denote the United Slates and all parts of Britannia? If so, you will be paid at the rate of 200 guineas a word. The World Trade Club, of San Francisco, United States of America, has offered 200 guineas to the person who suggests the word which, in the judgment of the club’s Metric Campaign Committee, is best suited to worldwide use. The competition is open to all human-kind. The money will be paid to the winner at noon on May 15lh, 1020, by a committee appointed by President \V. 11. Hammer, of the World Trade Club. “Britain,” “Ambria," “Amhril fica,” “Br-am,” “Sam-Bull,” “Anglia," are some words thus far suggested. New name.-, are constantly coming.

The damage done by drivers of motor lorries “rushing" bridge.- was stressed by the engineer of the Egmont County Council at its meeting recently. In the cnorse of his report he suggested that either a limit should be put on the loads carried by motor lorries over tin; wooden bridges, or power obtained to license the drivers of lorries so as to

have some control over them. It was not so much the weights carried by lorries that were a menace to the stability of the bridges, as the manner in which the bridges were rush-' ed by some of the drivers. A fiveton lorry with a six-ton load could easily take one year’s life out of an old bridge in one trip over. One of the picture postcards distributed broadcast throughout Germany and Belgium in .1915, purported to be a photograph of Louvain University, with Belgian civilians tiring from windows upon German soldierv. The natural doubt that arises as to whether such a photograph would have been taken at such a time is increased when one learns that: there were no windows on that side of Louvain University —it was one blank wall.