NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3681, 23 August 1927, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF.

The women police of London cost £9407 Gs 7d last year. Blocks of salt were once used by the people of China for paying taxes. New publications arrive at the British Museum library at the rate of 30,000 a month. Clouds travel at immense heights. “Mare’s tails,” for instance, are found 30,000 ft. up. Air taxis can now he had at Brooldands for any part of Britain or Europe at a shilling a mile. In the City of Paris there are stated to be more than 100,000 trees, only one of which is an oak. Uniforms for British postmen have to be stocked in 1800 sizes. Each complete suit costs £1 11s 4d. i A lady living at Wem, Shropshire, has received through the post a wedding-ring she lost 18 years ago. The Lindon Rover Scouts have given 600 blood transfusions to sa,ve life, since the beginning of this year. One by-law in Los Angeles makes it illegal to bathe two or more babies in one bath at the same time. Out of the total number of traffic accidents in Great Britain last year, nearly one-sixth were due to pedal bicycles. Twelve families with an average of ten persons each were among the 830 British immigrants landed at Quebec recently. The Boy Scouts are still adding to their numbers, which were increased last year by 79,000, Britain alone supplying 15,000. Forty ponies and 250 donkeys have been licensed for Blackpool sands this year, but licenses for six camels have been refused. A baby bom now, according to a British statistician, has an expectation of 56.58 years of life if a boy, and 60.47 years if a girl. Greyhounds are perhaps the oldest known type of dog. Stone carvings dating back to about 400 8.C., show figures of these animals. In the regular “shopping list” of the London Zoo appear large quantities of sunflower seeds, mealworms, condensed milk, and dried flies.