NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3044, 5 June 1926, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Out of mi plays submitted to the Lord Chamberlain in England this year, fifteen have been banned. Last year only sixteen were banned out of 740 submitted. With the help of the latest machinery, a baker can make 470 loaves in seven minutes, thus doing the work that once would have occupied one hundred men. So many trees are struck and damaged by lightning in America, that the United States Department of Agriculture is advising lightning rods for valuable trees. Esperanto is now disseminated in 100 countries. The Universal Esperanto Association in Geneva has members at the present time in 82 different countries. Teeth inspection is now part of the military system of Aldershot. Instructions in the preserving and cleaning of teeth are to be given to all units home and abroad. The heaviest bunch of bananas ever known arrived at Spitalfields Market, London, recently. The stalk weighed 1381 b. and bore 300 bananas. The usual weight is 451 b. The London stockbrokers are said to wear out the floor of the Stock Exchange every five years. This means that the floor is worn away to the depth of half-an-inch. The total number of houses in England, in 1008, was 1,319,215. The popnation was about 51,500,000 less than the population of London alone at the present day. At Eads took (Somerset), a rate collector summoned himself for the non-payment of 4s Bd, being the education portion of the poor-rate and the Court made the usual order for payment.