NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3746, 26 January 1928, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF.

The quantity of oil obtained from an average whale is 2000 gallons. Over 50,000 pigs are required every week by the markets to fill Britain’s demand for pork. At Hull, where the recent summer was one of the wettest on record, a tradesman was offering straw hats at Gd each. The pillars of St. Paul’s Cathedral, into which cement has been injected, are stated to be stronger now than the solid stone. ■Films are to be used for political propaganda in Germany. The National Party will, in the event of a general election, send’ out. 400 travelling cinemas. Thirty pictures can be taken at once in the new studio which is to be established in the Palace of Engineering in the old Empire Exhibition buildings at Wembley. There is also a restaurant where 300 people can be catered for. Explosions and “gob” fires in mines, and the best way to handle them, are to be studied at a new research station built in Derbyshire. Covering 400 acres and in an isolated position, this station was used for testisg guns during the War. A coal-miner, Mr. John Knight, and his two sons carried off 45 prizes, including 21 firsts, at a flowershow at Uedworth, Warwickshire. One juvenile member of the family exhibited the second prize winning bouquets in a class confined to the children of Bedworth. In the woods near Berlin are a large number of “vacation recreation grounds” set aside by the city for the benefit of its children. For the sum of 1/6 a week youngsters are transported daily to and from these parks, and are given three light meals while there. The salvage of refuse by the Glasgow Cleansing Department yielded a revenue in 1926 of £0879, of which old tins and tin-ware represented £2240 and waste paper £492. During- 40 years the total sum of £250,000 has. been obtained from the sale of materials salved by the Cleansing Department. A pigeon is one of the most regular attenders at the Rumanian Band concerts in the arcade at the North Pier, Blackpool. Three times a day, promptly at the time forstarting, it appears and perches high above the stage. It seems to enjoy classical music; most foxtrots make it ruffle its feathers.