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NEWS IN BRIEF.

Poplar recently had 2000 on its waiting list for houses. Wireless licenses are held by 2,130,000 people in Britain. There is no stamp duty on cheques in the United States. One-third of the Paris streets are planted with trees. A sovereign actually contains gold worth twenty shillings. Buildings in London to the number of 5091 were notified as dangerous last year. A North London hairdresser.provides his afternoon customers with a* cup of tea. In a block of municipal flats in Mantell 'Street, Finsbury, there will be garages for 64 perambulators. x London’s buses are s;o standardised that every nut and bolt is interchangeable from one vehicle to another. Oak trees take so long in attaining any profitable size that it is not a business proposition to grow them. The Coronation Spoon in the Tower of London is believed to be the oldest English silver spoon still existing. British bronze coins are made of an alloy which contains about 95 per cent, copper and costs about £65 a ton. Starting as a maidservant, Miss Sillanpaa is now Assistant Minister of Industry in the new Socialist Cabinet of Finland. Scotsmen give better tips than the visitors from England, according to the evidence of a taxieabman in a Belfast court. At a depth of a mile the ocean bed is well illuminated by the luminous organs of the fish living there, according to a scientist. Under the new British Health Insurance benefits, 13,000,000 people will now have the opportunity of having their teeth attended to. Phoenix is not only the mythical bird of antiquity rising out of flame, but also a Homeric hero with Achilles in the Trojan war. It is estimated that about a million sterling is expended by the women of the United States in the effort to keep themselves beautiful.

A. new record is claimed for the London County Council’s housing estate at Beeontree. In one street alone there are 2000 children living. In the British Civil Service there are about 300,000 workers, half of whom are stated to receive an inclusive wage of less than £3 a week.

Clothes moths lay their eggs in any crack or crevice where dust, can collect. The space between the floor-boards and the skirting-board is a favourite place. Left as a trust fund in 1795 for the care of a tomb in a London churchyard, the interest of £IOO has accumulated until the trustees hardly know how to spend it. Holders Green, London, has too many elementary schools. There are 7790 scholars provided for and 2204 vacancies. Some of the schools are nearly half empty. Manicure treatment introduced into one food packing factory resulted in the girls taking a great pride in the appearance of their bands, with beneficial results all round.

Bee-keepers in Britain have been facing a poor prospect. Owing to the bad weather bees have been eating their own stores of honey and killing off all the drones.

As it is no use for church purposes, the crypt of a church in Gray’s Inn Road, London, is lot off as a fruit-store. Before that it was a bookstore and a wine cellar.

Men are now heavier in proportion to their height than they were. For a stature of sft. 9in. a man should now weigh 12st 31b, this is 91b more than the old figure. Fitted with sleeping accommodation for four people, a new luxury aeroplane has been built for a Belgian millionaire. There is also a toilet-room, complete with wash basins and mirrors.

Scholars at Eton College dress according to their height. Under five feet four inches in height they wear the famous Eton jacket, when they pass that mark they don morning coats. Cardiff claims to be a city of beautiful women. “Visitors to the City Hall,” said the city’s Mayor recently, “always remark on the fine buidlings and the good looks of the ladies.”

The founder of Worth’s, the famous Paris dressmaker’s business, was Charles Worth, a Lincolnshire Solicitor, who went to the French capital to design frocks in the days of the Empress Eugenie. The number of awards made since the formation of the Royal Humane Society of New Zealand is 589, as follows: Letters of commendation 120, certificates 190, bronze medals 146, silver medals 100, gold medals 8, “In Memoriam certificates 25.

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Ngā taipitopito pukapuka

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3702, 11 October 1927, Page 1

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Tapeke kupu
720

NEWS IN BRIEF. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3702, 11 October 1927, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3702, 11 October 1927, Page 1

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