NEWS IN BRIEF

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2284, 2 June 1921, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF

Teachers in the elementary schools of Tokio arc to be given a course in nursing and hygiene, and three teachers in each school will have special care of the health oi the pupils. Madagascar is developing the spider silk industry, the web being especially suitable for use on optical instruments, owing to its fineness. It is 1-OOth Hie thickness of silkworm silk. Rumania’s now Budget will include taxes on doors and windows, on firearms, on dogs used for sport, on all luxury articles and animals, ■n furnished apartments and rents. Vienna’s fresh milk supply is now only one-eighteenth of what it was before the war. The meagre quantity ol 50.001) Hires a day is all given to babies under 12 month- old, and sick folk. Men working in an old colliery halfway up Abcrlillery Mountain accidentally tapped a natural spring, from which iliere was such a tremendous rush of water that parts of the village were Hooded. It is estimated that'3o per cent, of the world’s tonnage is now out of employment, or .17,000, 000 gross tons out of the 50.800,000 gross tuns alient at the first of this year. Everv country is affected.