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NEWS IN BRIEF.

Traffic Ims doubled in Hyde Park since taxis were allowed to go through. Austria makes an annual income of about £130,000 from visas on passports. Poultry feathers to the value of £208,765 were imported into Britain from abroad in 1022. Hr B. Ileaver, of Leighton, Buzzard, England, aged 82, has three sisters of 05, 03 and 84. Rubber “Comforters” for babies are banned by the authorities of the British Rhine Army. There are.no records to prove that the children in Ancient Greece or Rome ever played with toys. Letters posted in aeroplanes and sorted on route are a new development promised in aerial transport. The unveiling of the Zoebrugge memorial has been postponed until St. George’s Day, 1025. The traffic strike of London reduced the takings of a successful theatre by about £SOO a week. A human skull (hough) by scientists to be 500,000 years 'old has been discovered in California. The oldest British piano in existence is to be seen at the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley. In Zululaiul the atmosphere is so clear that objects can be seen by starlight at a distance of seven miles. The value of sea fish landed on both coasts of Canada during February amounted to about £200,000. A woman who sells studs at the kerbstone in Regent Street, London, travels from and to Windsor by train. Working in tanyards or gasworks is believed to be beneficial to those who suffer from diseases of the chest. “The standard of dancing in Lon-

don is believed to he beneficial (o any other town or city in the world’’ says an expert." Velvet Court suits .which would cost upward of £-10 can he hired for one evening in Sweden for about:

four guineas. London is the most generous place in Britain. Street beggars find the shopping districts of the West End very profit-able. One of the largest forests in the world, situated between the Ural Mountains and the Okhotsk Sea, in Russia, stands on ice. St. Paul’s Cathedral. London, contains the Chapel of the Order of St. Michael and SI. George, which is only used once a year. .Sunflower seeds are one of the curious imports Britain receives from Russia. They yield a valuable food for cattle and poultry. Seven and a half million passengers travelled on the London County Council’s tramway from Good Friday to Easter Monday. AA’lien evaporated, a ton of water from (lie Red Sea yields ISTlbs. of salt; the same volume of water from the Atlantic gives only Sllhs. Tropical-trees at the British Empire' Exhibition are planted in their native soil, tons of which have been procured for this purpose. At least twenty-two people are dead as the result of a cloud-hurst, which wiped out two settlements. Carter’s Bluff and limiter, near Johnson City, Tennessee. A customer in a local shop paid for her article and said. "Oh, I've given you threepence too much.” “Oil, no, madaine," was the reply, “that threepence is glued to the counter. Win are not the first to he had. —Exchange

A now kind of smile was brought in light during tho hearing of a case at the To Awanmiu Court last week. The defendant said; “Tic had a kind of a German looking smile on his face when he told me T had fifty shares to pay for when T had only applied for live." When counsel asked for an explanation as tii the sort of smile, the information was not forthcoming.

Within the next few weeks approximately 700 fiien will he thrown on to the labour market. This will he brought about by the closing of freezing works around Christ - church. A few of these men arc Australians. Tln-v will go hack to their own country during the off season. Most of the local men find work in lhi> country in such occupations as farm labouring, scrub cutting, ditch clearing, and rabbiting. This will not absorb all the labour offering and a certain proportion of men will be numbered among the unemployed, thus aggravating the position during tin* latter months of the winter. The majority of people are probably unaware that the colouring of some birds' plumage is not absolutely permanent. This interesting fact was mentioned by Professor Johnson in his address on Colour in Nature on Monday night at Auckland. After a prolonged bath, or after a heavy deluge of rain, he said, the. pink colouring on a parrot’s head often “ran” and the feathers would look very washed out, and bedraggled for some time afterwards. This washing out of colour often produced some very queer effects, continued the lecturer, by Ids suggestion as to the awkward results that would ensue if human hair suffered the same disability as that of a bird plumage when exposed to over-long immersion or to a shower of rain. The face no longer is an index to the mind, in the opinion of Dr. A. 13. Fitt, professor of education, who gave evidence at the Committee of Inquiry into problems connected with mentally deficient and sexual offenders. Almost invariably, he said, on entering a class of so called backward children, lie would be asked by a teacher: “What do you think of them?” The question sometimes came after he had only been in the room for a few minutes, and the teacher expected him to judge the children by their faces. Ho always refused to give an answer, because the question was unreasonable. In one class of backward children lie had seen only one child who had looked deficient. On questioning this child, the professor found that tier nights were almost perpetual nightmare, and that her home surroundings were not at all that they might be. Under such circumstances how could the child’s mind function normally 3

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Ngā taipitopito pukapuka

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2747, 19 June 1924, Page 4

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Tapeke kupu
963

NEWS IN BRIEF. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2747, 19 June 1924, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2747, 19 June 1924, Page 4

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