GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2296, 30 June 1921, Page 4

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

A curious alteration to the regulations at Wandsworth swimming baths is proposed to the council. The committee recommend that “persons be admitted to the baths, when reserved for mixed bathing, only when accompanied by a person or persons of the opposite 'swx. v At present admission is limited to members of approved mixed swimming clubs, and people who hold permits from the council.

All Paris has been touched by the story of two young girls whose parents had been killed in the war and who, having lost their employment in a factory through illness, sprang together, one Sunday afternoon, into the River Seine, but were rescued. A newspaper opened a subscription for them, which is said to have reached £2,009. The statement is .now made that the girls are excellent swimmers who have played the same trick on tlie generous public in several provincial towns.

“I shall allow these men to go upon entering into their own recognisances in the sum of Id each. I am certain they will come again for the retrial.” Under these conditions the Deputy-Chairman of the London Sessions released three men on bail, the jury having disagreed after the hearing had been in progress two Jays. The men, provision dealers from the Tower Bridge district, were charged with exposing for sale tins of pineapple which were unfit for food.

During’ the war, a certain British Government Department produced a bright pink petrol; in order to circumvent pilfering. The. difficulty was to find a dye, soluble in petrol, and of sufficient colouring power that it could be used in such minute quantities as would not affect the efficiency of the petrol. The dye also had to be volatile, otherwise a deposit of it would collect in induction pipes and cylinders. It was found very difficult to satisfy all these conditions, but eventually a red dye was obtained which even in very small quantities coloured petrol a bright pink, and had no harmful effect.