NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3026, 22 April 1926, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Quill pens of the best quality are made by hand. A skilled workman can cut over 1000 pens a day. Most of the eat-skins sold in London for making up into furs are imported from Holland and Belgium. Waiting-rooms at a London Railway Station have been turned into flats for the use of railway employees. Only women and girls will be *ydmilted to a recreation ground which has just been presented to Hutehin, Hertfordshire. The heat of the moon at its full is equal to the heat of a wax candle at a distance of 250 yards. Coins can be sorted and put into pockets at the rate of about 50,000 an hour by a machine made for use in the Bank of England. With ages ranging from 82 to 02, one London family of five brothers and four sisters have a total of 630 years between them. Only about three per cent, of British Civil servants remain in the Government’s employment until they reach the official retiring age. Civil servants who live in London are said to favour 'Wandsworth. No fewer than 0835 of the total of 47,000 live in that borough. Rain falls more frequently in Britain between three o’clock and eight o’clock in the morning than at any other time during the day. Britain has provided £431,000 towards the cost of the League of Nations since its start. France’s share has been £306,000 and Italy’s £337,000. Canada’s exports to Russia in the year ended October last were valued at £2,500,000, compared with £O6OO in the preceding twelve months.