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NEWS AND NOTES.

About £IO,OOO is in be allocated to Empire scholarships from the funds of the Fellowship of the British Empire. Subscriptions, from members amount ,to £50,000, representing - nearly 25,000 Fellows.

Taxes on food and drink in Britain have risen enormously since 1024. Tn that year the taxation per head of’the population was: Food, 4/9; drink, 10/111; the figures have now risen to Food 12/0, drink £3 Is ob. i

A cloakroom thief at Wembley was almost successful in securing £IOO but by good foriune for the owner, tlie wallet containing (lie money was left, and another wallet containing a few scraps of paper was taken.

The Lapps are again to he studied by scientists. llr. U. ClvdeFislier, of the Museum of Natural History, New York, has gone to Swedish Lapland to observe the lore, customs, and daily life of those people.

Of the 7,227 calls received by the London Fire Brigade last year. 2,•103 were false alarms —532 of these being caused maliciously. There were 4/2-! actual fires, causing a monetary loss of £727,1*01, compared with £708870 in ' the previous year. Seventy-one’ deaths were caused by fire and 444 people were injured while 2-17 tlremen were bur!. A New York man named Herbert. Kingsley, 2S years old, attempted to end his life recently by swallowing a quantity of poison. Despondency caused by hours of continuous brooding after bis wife had returned home with her hair bobbed, was responsible for bis art, according to ihe police. A physician was called and Kingsley recovered. 'flic nine grim trees on ihe AteLean estate, ..Lulls, which have suffered from the gum scab-, bale been purchased bv the Wanganui 1 lydi iT-Elect rie Bower Itoard lor use us electric light poles. In oilier to strengthen the durability of the timber, the Slate Forest Department is carrying out experiments on lice property by treating i lie felled timber with a creosote prepa ra I ion. A cabbage tree considered by some to lie the.largest in ( aoterbiiiy is that on the property <>f Mr L K. Mawson, Idris Hoad, f'.lirist church. Its girth, at about two feet from the ground, is lift, -tin., and the spread of its branches is outstanding for this class of tree. This giant is no survial of the old forests, but was planted by Mr Mawson 42 years ago. The only way the strong growth call be accounted for is (hat it stands on a very deep rich soil.

A striking revelation of the Air .Ministry's secret and .successful development of wirelessly-controlled aircraft was contained in a warning broadcasted recently from Whale Island experimental station to the (‘fleet that a pilotless aeroplane, with the engine running, was adrift in mid-air. Subsequently it crushed into the sen at Bognor, IS miles away. It is reported that two other pilotless machines, after going through their evolutions, had returned to their base. (Jernian

scientists are attempting to make raiding aeroplanes silent, I here-by baffling those defending a raided district. Besides lessening- the noise

of the motors, they arc. attempt illg to abolish (lie noise of the propellors by substituting air-screws, with a number of small blades for tin- two large ones.

In common with other dairying districts at this time of the year, a very brsk trade is being done on the Ifaurnki Plains in calfskins. One lyi.ver has been purchasing, on an average. 1(100 skins a week. lie is of the opinion that the number of skins lie will handle during the present season will lie great Iv in excess of that of previous seasons. In the course of his travels the greatest number of calves be has found being reared on any farm is 1-1. As a rule, Ihe number kept is from four to six, as farmers have learned that i! lias not paid io_ breed for market purposes. Borne of the farmers on the Plains keep all their calves, making a .good profit by selling them as vealers.

A sample nf n now substance eal11*il (■tinmngitc, wliioli is considered In ho ;i petroleum product was shown in m represent mive nf llie Aii<-l<l:tiiil Star on Tnef'lay. Only l wo discoveries of this substance have so far been recorded. AI I ho end of ISfif* it suddenly made its appearance on the suiTace of fho u't • >illtil oiisl of Soil f.iiko, ( 'oovnug: i!i.-Sfii*t, South Ansfi alia, li was nut soon again nmil lb'_’o. On each oronsion ilio ;»(>| n-;i»';in*-i- of this substance l*o 1 hiwoil ;i porioil »f cx.ri pi ionnllv heavy rainlall. A Hot tlit- wnlois had subsided, large 4|ii;inti|ios of eoorogniie wt-re disiovoi'Oil. i! is in si i oo i s iiliou; t hit o-ijiin rlers of an inch in ( 1 1i• • !<- ness. corrugated on tlio lop like nn alligator skin. The slioois are lle.vihio innl can ho rolloi| up tighily. ft hums with n bright (Inino mill has ;i I'niiii oily smell. 'fronto<l wiili solvents, eoorongitc gives n l'roo mineral oil. Tho opinion Ims hoon given hv nn expert that Ilio presence of eoorongitc on u largo scale is evidence Ihnl. oil exists in tho region wliero it was found. A farmer who appeared before the Southland County Council recently to ask for a road deviation, had a tale of woe to tell. In the first place he said that he had given a neighbouring farmer permission to cut the wires on his fence, and erect a temporary gate. The neighbour did so, but left tiie gate open, with the result that the stockgot. out. The neighbour was warned, hut continued to lcaveMhe gate open, so the aggrieved one. was

forced to hind up flic wires again, i Although he had md the authority 1 to do so, lie erected a gate on the ! roadline, hut- two days later his neighbour had removed the gale, and thrown it into the paddock. In order to keep stock from getting j out, lie tied a dog- to the fence to j catch the opening, and it had now I been there for two days, lie supposed that lie would lie prosecuted for cruelty to animals. The farmer received ail assurance that the work would be carried out.

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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2804, 30 October 1924, Page 4

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NEWS AND NOTES. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2804, 30 October 1924, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2804, 30 October 1924, Page 4

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