GENERAL NEWS ITEMS

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2346, 25 October 1921, Page 4

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS

• A novel incident happened at a village church in Morley Street, Botolph, Norfolk, while it was being decorated for the harvest thanksgiving service. In the midst of the work a hen from a neighbouring farm came in and laid an egg on a sheaf of corn —as its thanksgiving offering. The pass to which business has been brought by the depreciated condition of the Polish currency is illustrated by the following story published by the Volksblatt of Fraustadt: —A Pole, after making various purchases, found that he still had 3.00 marks to pay, but no small change to pay with. As it costs 1.3-1 marks to print a onemark note, change is at a premium. He solved the difficulty by cutting off three of his trousers buttons, the shopkeeper having accepted thenvalue as a mark apiece. To make up the 40 pfennigs, he handed over four matches out of an ordinary box, which to-dav costs 4.50 marks. A British de Ilavilland “taxiplane,” piloted by Mr Alan Cobham, is engaged on an air journey throughout Europe which will eclipse all records for the private hire or use of an aeroplane.. The hirer of the machine is a business man of Paris, who has to make periodical tours of' Europe. He decided that if the journey was made by air it would he accomplished in one-tenth of the time it would take if he travelled* by road. Before Mr Cobham returns to London, he, with his passenger and their interpreter, will have flown 5,000 miles. He took 100 different maps with him f 01 ‘ guidance over the various stages of the journey.