NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2411, 30 March 1922, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Morocco Ims mi newspapers. One Pole in every nine is a Government servant.

Tn 1921 there were 0,000 camels in Western Australia.

Twenty-four British steamers were laid up in Antwerp recently. The oldest Belgian citizen, M. Philippe Lantener. has died at the age of 105 years. v •William Gardener, of. Bedfordshire, who died recently, had worked, on the same farm for 75 years. Three German steamers have inaugurated a direct steamship service between Glasgow and Hamburg 1 . Of 80,000 habitations destroyed in Belgium during the war, 52,000 have been reconstructed up.to date. Foreigners going to Ostend will in future- have to pay a visitor’s tax of 25 centimes (Id) per day and per bed.

Argentina has placet! an order * If . . with a big American ammunition factory for 1,000,000 pounds of smokeless powder. , From 1916, to - December 31st, 1921, savings certificates sold in England numbered 493,907,705. During last year 53,556,315 were sold.

For the year 1921, the Swiss postal administrations deficit reached a. total of £720,000, despite the increase of all postal rates.

Two hundred cocoanuls filled with Jamaica rum, were seized bv Federal agents at Minneapolis railway station recently. ' Sewing machines, containing 35 parts, small enough to hold in the hand and yet capable of light work, are being exported from Germany. Count Felix Hrynieviecki, clerk in a Winnipeg Police Court, is said to have recovered ancestral property in Poland worth £2,000,000.

Rubber flooring is fitted to the corridors of .the New London School of Economics, making the building one of the most silent in the metropolis:

A young nmn, charged at Lambeth with wilfully breaking a window, was stated to have been sent to an industrial school,at the age of four.