NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2607, 17 July 1923, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES.

Apple-juice is a good medium for preventing- the obscuring of motor car wind-screens by rain.

Tt is said that there are 100,000,000 more people in Europe than the soil can support and, unless a new fertiliser is discovered, millions will die of starvation. Professor Barton Scammell, president of the Radium Institute at Dover, says he has a wonderful new fertiliser which may save parts of Europe from Cannibalism. Tt consists of lava from Mount Vesuvius treated with the radio-active solution of radio-phosphate of potash. It can lie used with extraordinary effect. Crops are doubled and trebled in quantity, and the quality is greatly increased.

The question of (he alleged overworking of Judges cropped up again in the Legislative Council this week when the Hon. O. Samuel expressed the opinion that there was a good deal to he said in favour of the argument that our Judges had too much to do. He doubted if it was necessary to increase the number of Judges, but thought that their* duties could be relieved through certain of the work being passed on to competent.registrars and by the reinstatement of the District Courts. He suggested that the Government should look into this question, with a view to organising a means of making lighter the work of the Jud-

The concert was over, and the performers were assembled in the little dressing room behind the scenes. After a while the conversation turned to past deeds of greatness done by the company. “Once,” remarked the baritone, looking round to see if everyone was listening—“once T was singing a song called ‘Row, Brother, Row,’ and all the audience began to bend backwards and forwards as if they were rowing.” “That's nothing,” broke in the bass. “Why only a week ago T sang ‘The Last Post.’ and the entire audience began to stick imaginary postage stamps on letters, and Hi on they all ran round to the pillar box to catch the final collection of the dav!”

Most folks have heard (he story of the man who planted canary seed and expected the deal' Idle lords to shoot up oul of (he ground —or about the man who planted carrots and a donkey came up and a(e them. Our old friend, ‘‘Ernie” Graham, tells a good one too, says the Wairarapa Standard about planting a pup in his garden —and up came a sanitary inspector. Here's another. At a recent Wairarapa farmers’ meeting, one settler detailed how he had bought a special sample of' seed, sown it and tended it well, with the result that he had a splendid crop this year mostly Californian thistle!