NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2839, 29 January 1925, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Europe lias now 10 presidents and 13 sovereigns. The period of Hie glacial age lias been placed al 30,000 years. ""'Mile. Lenglen lias been proclaimed the French queen of sport. New plant for Croydon, London, power station is to cost £84,280. A Bedfordshire county library is to be run at less than a farthing ra tc. Li six months £240,400 has been spent on Kent main roads and bridges. The world membership of the Boy Seoul movement is now nearly 2,000,000. Market Tin Thorough Council, England, proposes to employ a water diviner.

Tn a year the London County Council has supplied its schools with 9,000,000 pens.

The summer cleaning of the Guild Hail costs the City Corporation of London £B-13.

Roehford, England. Guardians arc to Inly a £lO piano for (lie workhouse inmates.

At the Central Criminal Court, London, only £lO was spent on law hooks in a vear.

Roses sold on Queen Alexandra’s Day of last year brought in more than £40,000. A woman a I Marylebone County Court, London, said she kept ten children on 30/- a week.

The potato crop yield in England and Wales last year was estimated at six tons per acre, one-fifth of a ton below the ten years’ average. The complaint against a woman in Bow County Court, was that she kept “a private 300” comprising a goat, cat, dog, chicken, parrot and rabbits. The Nobel Prizes awarded for the most notable achievements in physics, chemistry, medicine, literature and peace each year, are worth ahout £B,OOO each'. For the fifth time in a year, thieves smashed a window of a Lon--don pearl company’s shop in Piccadilly and got away with jewellery allied at £SO. Every State in the United States of America lias power to nominate one student to a Rhodes Scholarship at University, worth £3OO a year. A chapel converted from a cowhouse by voluntary workers at Manor House Hospital, Holders Green. London, is to be dedicated to the Bishop of WiWesden. Policewomen to the total number of 101 are employed in the Metropolitan (London) police district and by six county forces and 27 city and borough forces. Representatives of 300,000 American barbers at a meeting in Chicago, decided that hereafter they should be known by the more dignified nanfe of “Chirotonsors.” A new fire boat with turbine pumps having a capacity of 2,000 gallons per minute at a pressure of 0011). per square inch, is to be built, for the London Fire Brigade.

Representatives o£ 45 nations took part in the recent Olympic Games in Paris. When the Games took place in Antwerp four years ago, only 17 countries were represented. Coalville (Leicestershire) Urban Council has accepted a gift of £B,000 from the Leicestershire Miner’s Welfare Committee toward the provision for public baths in (lie town. Air Richard Ledger, who lias not missed his morning- dip in the London Serpentine for 33 years, winter and summer, was 7-1 recently. He “dipped” on his hirihday. Britain’s taxation per head of the population has risen from £3 11/- in 1914 to £ls 18/- now; in the United States of America, the I; . reuse is from £1 7/11 to £(! 14s lOd. Scottish fisiiprmen who were married at Yarmouth, England, before sailing- home, rode with their brides in taxicabs decorated with fish workers’ hig-li hoots and strings of herrings.