NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 2983, 7 January 1926, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES.

A new invention is a gas ring with an ingenious device that causes the removal of a kettle or saucepan for refilling purposes to extinguish the gas. Its replacements relights the ring.

The most powerful foghorn in

the world is to be set up in the neighbourhood of Cherbourg. The horn, which will be furnished with a 40 h.p. motor, will be audible at a distance of thirty miles.

Electrically-operated gates are now in use at a railway level-cros-sing at Lincoln. As the gates swing back to their closed position across the street they are automatically locked to a block that rises from the road.

Tom Lee, the negro who gallantly saved the lives of 32 people in the

disaster to the excursion steamer M. E. Norman, has been presented with a house costing nearly £IOOO and has been introduced to President Coolidge. Mark Elsom, a newsboy, having received a half-crown in mistake for a penny, took the 2s 5d to Lincoln police station, and the police were able to restore the money to its owner. The magistrates have given the boy a watch.

“I am afraid the public of to-day is deteriorating. In football and other sports men with the physical attributes that would justify their participaion stand on the bank,” declared Mr. B, S. Irwin, president of the Otago Athletic and Cycling Club. He said that too many people were spectators instead of being participators.

A Christmas goose story comes from Takapuna. After the manner of its kind, the bird went missing ere it was due to get the chopper. By advertisement the lady informed tlie residents of the locality that she would be glad of its return. She spent a gooseless Christmas, Imagine her indignation on arising one morning last week, to discover on her front lawn a gleaming array. The bones of her goose! The appearance of three Chinese in the Auckland Police Court on a charge of having attempted to enter the Dominion without paying the poll tax recall’s the fact that some years ago there was hardly any restriction on the number of Chinamen coming here, and that they were arriving in such numbers that they threatened to flood the country. But allbough race aliens now comprise a comparatively small proportion of the total arrivals, they are by no means unimportant. “As a matter of fact,” says the Government Statistician, in the last issue of the New Zealand Year Book, “the entry of race aliens, notably Chinese and Indians, into the Dominion has been regarded with concern for some years. In 1924 a total of 93 Chinese and Indians arrived, whilst only 1( Chinese and one Indian departedj leaving a gain to the Chinese population”)! 76 and the Indian population of 43. In the ten years to 1924 548 Chinese and 128 Indians arriv-