NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3578, 21 December 1926, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Among 228 cases of overcrowding reported in the past year to the York (England), Health Committee was one of a bedroom being occupied by a husband and wife and their eight children. In memory of 30 men who went down with the trawler Field-Mar-shal Robertson, off Iceland, in February, 1925, a tablet is to be sent from Hull to be placed in Reykjavik Cathedral, Iceland. In motor-cycle making Britain leads the way, one single firm turning out more machines than are made by all American producers. The export trade was worth more than £6,000,000 last year. If a barrage were thrown across the Bristol Channel, near the mouth of the River Severn, it would produce nearly twice as much electrical power as is obtained from the Niagara. Falls. Jumpers as worn by naval sailors will in future have treir V shaped openings altered in depth according to the total length of the garment. At present every jumper has an eleven-inch opening. A burly Maori walked into the Taihape Post Office the other afternoon, (says the “Times”), and asked if he could use the telephone. “Not here,” said the clerk, “you put a penny in the machine outside and use that telephone.” The Maori walked away, but returned a moment later looking very disgusted. “Well," said the clerk,“llow did you get on 1 ?” “Get on ” retorted the dusky gentleman. “Pvcorry 1 no get on very well. Ino get the other terra. All the machine say was “ 14 stone.” The clerk laughed as it dawned on him that the Maori had put his pennies in a weighing muchine.