NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2898, 18 June 1925, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Waitresses in the restaurant of the House of Commons receive £1 Is (id a week and their hoard and lodging after about ten years’ service; but they are not paid during the period when Parliament is not sitting.

Children's parties in the West End of London are often run nowadays on the same lines as the “At Homes” of Society ladies. Costly frocks and even make-up arc frequently worn by the juvenile hostess and her guests. Whether parishioners should have a voice in the selection of their rector or vicar was recently discussed in England by the Church of England authorities. The present system of patronage has been in operation for 800 years. Blocks of Hats, on the lines of American “apartment buildings,” are being considered by the London County Council. At present the nearest approach to these are the five-stored dwellings, 80 ft. high, built bv tbe London County C'oun-

Eolding a sheet of tissue paper is one of the tests at the National Institute of Industrial Psychology. Girls who handle it deftly and fold if without undue creasing are regarded as more suitable for dressmaking than those who crease it all over.

Americans are the greatest meateaters with an average per capita consumption of 1751 b. a year, much the largest part being beef. The English, though known as beefeaters average only 1101 b. of meat. The French eat only half as much meat as the English, and the consumption is still less in Germany, Austria and Italy.

The world's present richest source of zinc appears to be the Sullivan mine, near Cranbrook, British Columbia. Its undeveloped ore is estimated to be capable of supplying one million tons annually for forty years, and to have a total value of more than 70,000,000 dollars. The zinc-lead ore is stated to be running over twenty per cent.