NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3552, 19 October 1926, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Men engaged by the year in farm work-in Canada received an average of £l2B 4& in wages and board last year. Women were paid £92 Bs. Rags used for oiling engines and other machines can be collected, the surplus oil extracted for making into_ soap and the rags cleaned for use again. Goldfish in Britain range in, price according to variety, from fid to £3 a piece. The most expensive is the Lion Head, which comes from America. The Agriculture Explorer is the name given to a scientist who is sent out to little-known parts of the

world by the United States in.search of new fruits and plants that may be introduced into America. To keep n row boat headed for a certain point as one rows with one’s back to the bow requires skill and constant turning of the head. Newly invented reversible oars enable a rower to face the bow and row ahead as if 1 his back were to it, or to face the stern as with ordinary oars. The oars will fit in any standard rowlocks, or the device that makes them reversible may bo attached to ordinary oars.

A Wanganui retailer last nigh I discovered a unique advertising scheme, which certainly won him all the attention that could have been desired (says the Chronicle). He offered any caller who produced the exact amount of 8s lid a ten shilling note in exchange. His offer, needless to say, was readily accepted. Many suspected a “catch” in such remarkable generosity; but there wasn’t one, and the benefactor got all the attention he wanted while his offer was open.

A young lady who arrived in Wellington from Taihape on Friday night, on , her way to the South Island, was the victim of an unfortunate experience through the blunder of a male escort, says the Dominion. He dismissed the taxi secured to take them to the Ferry Wharf, at the gates, and the two walked to what the lady’s escort thought was the Wahine. Not until it was nearly 8 o’clock, when he asked a passer-by whether the Waihine was sailing that night, did the man realise that he had placed the 'lady on board the liner lonic, and that the Waihine was already on her wav to Lyttelton.