NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3755, 16 February 1928, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

An appeal made by a newspaper in Auckland for the relief of unemployment realised £537.

The present season has resulted in splendid yields of potatoes in Inglewood.

There are now about 60 miners laid up at Millerton with influenza, states the Grey River Argus. To-day there are over 9000 less workers on the land than there were two years ago, states the Auckland Sun.

Fifteen years ago some employees of the Auckland Gas Company decided to apply for shares in the company. Now 270 of them hold 30,000 shares. The number of employees is 750. • The earwig pest is rapidly assuming serious proportions in Dannevirke. Gardens to which a couple of years ago they were comparative strangers are now overrun with them. The Waikato Times has been taking a plebiscite of its readers on the daylight saving question. The result was a majority of 825 against daylight saving. Candidates for the police in Britain must be at least sft. 9in. in height, with a chest measurement of 36in. After passing a simple educational test, comprising reading, writing, dictation, gnd elementary arithmetic, they commence at a minimum salary of £3 10s a week. The largest squared stones ever used for building purposes are those found among the wonderful ruins of the Temple of the Sun, at Baalbec, in Syria. In one of the walls, 19 feet above the ground level, there are three monster blocks, all over G 3 feet in height and 13 feet in height. In consequence of the large number of illiterates among criminals in Turkish' prisons, the authorities aro going to begin a course of instruction for such prisoners. They we to be taught at least to read and write. No prisoner will be discharged, whatever his sentence, until ho knows his alphabet.

Dr. Lulofs informed the correspondent of the Christian Science Monitor that the installation in the new Jewish church has a heating capacity of 29 kilowatts. The full heating capacity is considered ample for the coldest weather in this country; it is expected than an average of 20 kilowatts .during the •winter season will be sufficient. (Freak and deformed animals are often to be seen at A. and P. shows throughout the country, but the matter has now been taken up‘by the Canterbury Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, which has protested strongly to its local A. and P. Association with a view to having such exhibits excluded from the grounds at future shows. This was mentioned in a letter considered at Friday’s meeting of the Otago Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, it also being stated that apart from possible suffering inflicted on such animals, these exhibits appealed only to the morbid side of the human mind, and should not be viewed by children, who, unfortunately, as a rule, constituted the greater proportion of the patrons of this class of side. show. It was decided to support the Canterbury Society in the matter, and to bring the matter uftder the notice of local A. and P. Associations.