NEWS IN BRIEF

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3767, 15 March 1928, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF

♦ Since ’ the Armistice 1,060,000 new bouses have been built in Britain. America is building a submarine that can drop sixty mines while she is cruising. HALS. Nelson and Rodney, which each cost £7,500,000 to build, call for £433,000 apiece in annual maintenance. A syndicate at Roxburgh, Otago, has struck a very promising face some Bft. high and 701‘t. long, which carries good gold all through.

The Dunedin Tourist Bureau reports that Milford and Doubtful Sounds experienced a record season this year. At Invercargill the other day a fuchsia bloom which measured in circumference was brought into the Times office.

The official opening of the Tau-ranga-Waihi section of the East Coast railway has now been definitely fixed to take place on the 28th inst.

Greymouth is to be the locale of a cinema comedy production. The producing company will be local, and also the senario writer and the cinematographer. i\V. Balderstone, a Blackball player, was disqualified by the West Coast Association for ' one year for using offensive language to an umpire at a cricket match recently. Wlhen a match was played on the St. John’s bowling green at Wanganui between the visiting South Australians and the country club representatives, two opposing rinks were skipped by players bearing the same name, Cherry. They discovered they were brothers, each unaware that the other was in Wanganui at the time. * They had not seen each other for many years and the reunion was as cordial as it was unexpected.

For a considerable time the police in Invercargill have been worried by reports of' missing cycles and despite the closest watch the mystery remained unsolved until last Monday (says the Southland' Times). Their surprise can be imagined when 28 missing bicycles were found in a stable at the bhek of one of Invercargill’s business premises, and the purloiuer of the cycles was found to be a child of about live years of age. Evidently his passion for the wheeled machines led him iuto cycle-klepto-mania and his parents were as surprised as the police, when the “plant” was discovered, the child having taken pains to keep his cycling secrets from his people. Twen-ty-eight bicycle owners are now feeling relieved and in all probabiL ity a small child is still feeling the effects of a heavy parental hand. There is only £lO in x-ates outstanding in Hunterville Town District.