GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2546, 22 February 1923, Page 1

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

.The 15cwt. head of a bottle-nos-ed whale has just been delivered to the Natural History Museum, South Kensington, SAY. It has come by goods train from Buckie, Banffshire.

The occupier of a house at St. John’s Wood, London, has discovered his neighbour’s silver plate, lost in a recent burglary, concealed under a bush in his garden.

A man who died in a train was removed at Winchmore Hill Station, London, with the help of a policeman. When the policeman uncovered the body he recognised it as that of his own uncle, George Muns of Enfield.

Lovers of the picturesque in buildings will be interested to learn that a fire-proof and vermin-proof straw thatched roof has been invented by a Tunbridge Wells linn of builders. Mr Henry Elwig, a Tunbridge Wells architect, has stated that a roof of the new material has been put on a bungalow designed for Sir Robert Gower. “It is made of straw and cement bound with copper wire,” he said. “In appearance it is similar to an ordinary thatched roof. It has been approved by the Ministry of Health, and has been accepted for insurance against lire.”

The only woman marine salvager in the world, Mrs Margaret Campbell Goodman, a small slight woman, has just contracted to raise the three-master schooner New Brunswick from the bottom of Lake Erie, where it has lain in fifty feet of water since 1859. Mrs Goodman came into prominence live years ago when she salvaged copper from the Pewabie, which sank in Lake Michigan in 1865. It was in the hope of getting some thrills that Mrs Goodman left her work as a journalist. Five divers had been killed in attempting to salvage the Pewabic before she decided to try her luck.