NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3739, 10 January 1928, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

“Decayed teeth are the most common defect in our schoolchildren/’ says a London medical officer. “Eighty per cent, are found to need some form of attention.”^ All the servants at Crosby Hall, the International Club for .University women, in Chelsea, are public school girls, the chief parlourmaid being a graduate of Edinburgh University. iSets of artificial teeth, .bottles of church wine, a motor-cycle, a lifebuoy, arid theatrical scenery were among the property “lost” in England on the Southern Railway and recently sold by auction. A gang of thieves formed a guard of honour —making an arch with their tools —outside Bulkington Church, near Nuneaton recently, when one of their number, George Lovett, was married. A resident of Christehucrh is the possessor of a watch which has been returned to him in very unusual circumstances. 'Some time ago, when visiting the Franz Josef

Glacier, he lost the watch, which fell down a deep crack in the ice. On returning to' Christchurch he bought another. Recently, however, the guide wild was with the party found the watch lying on the top of the ice, and in due course if was returned to the owner. The expenditure of a. few shillings, rva3 all that was required to repair it.