NEWS IN BRIEF

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2419, 20 April 1922, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF

Gunnery practice and the manoeuvring of ships in the Firth of Forth have been suspended by the Admiralty, in order to improve the seaJishing. According to the National Association for the Advancement of'-Col-oured People, New York, 63 persons were lynched in the United States in 1021. After rising for some time, Birmingham unemployment figures recently dropped to £84,439 wholly unemployed or not working more than three days a w<?ek. German exports to Russia are’ rapidly increasing. Of 19,382,000 poods of foreign goods unloaded at Petrograd port in 1921, one-third came from Germany. The site has been- bought for London’s largest telephone exchange, which will eater for 30,000. lines. The largest existing exchange has 10,000 lines. Czecho-Slovak stamps of a new design will shortly he issued to he used on letters sent by aeroplane from Prague to Paris, and from Prague to Warsaw. The exact direction and velocity of the wind can now he ascertained to ;is high as eight miles above the earth with special telescopes and gas-tilled toy balloons. A Palmerston North grower says that by placing unripened tomatoes under grass; in the open before the frost comes, growers may have them fresh and luscious, right through the win ter.