NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2393, 16 February 1922, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

The chief drawback of smoking for women is~sfated to be the effect it has on the voice and throat.

Buses pass the Nelson Column, London, at an average rate of 640 per hour at the busiest times. The Swiss franc is at present the world’s best currency,, even the American dollar being depreciated in Switzerland.

j Judging the distance of. stars from the earth almost at a glance is a useful power possessed by a woman astronomer.

Women’s hats ■ are luxuries, and therefore liable to the luxury tax, according to the German Minister for Finance. A A woman who lost a precious piece of lace in a garden at Versailles has lately found it woven in a swallow’s nest.

Domestic servants in Germany will in future only be allowed to work thirteen hours a day, less two hours for meals.

An Ideal Home Exahibit ion will be held in London this year. Queen Wilhelmina of Holland will exhibit a Dutch garden. Two hospital nurses were poisoned at Toulouse, in South of France, through eating sweets received through the post. Domestic servants obtaining situations through the British Ministry of Labour during a recent month numbered 11,300.

""Tennis lawns in sections, ready for laying and immediate use, arc now supplied by a North London firm. The Hungarian Government has dismissed 102 justices and judges on a charge of political bias. 1 hey ate deprived of the right to practise as solicitors or barristers.

The London County ( ouncil leeently decided to co-operate with (lie Transport Ministry in a scheme, costing £2,250,000, for improving or constructing arterial roads' out of London.

The idea of municipal banking has become so popular in Scotland that Parliament is being asked to give every county borough authority to establish such a bank.

A vote on women’s suffrage and women’s eligibility to municipal offices was recently taken by the city of Geneva. The proposal was rejected by 14,1GG votes to G,629.