NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3787, 3 May 1928, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

British streets jftve dangerous to children. No few ;«r than 223 were killed and 9528 i injured in London thoroughfares in 1926. A new glass si lbstitute is translucent aiid weatherproof and admits the ultravie Jet rays of the sun. Its chief ; idvantages are its flexibility and un ijbreakability—it is sold in rolls and by the yard. Thirty-five yer irs’ study by Mr. E. W. Burghard , iColoralo Springs, United States, ] irodiaeed chrysanthemums which cron the national championship. On eight-foot stems they were.y _ nearly a foot wide. S' What is knot g\\ as the Old Style Calendar, still usod by the Greek Orthodox Chui/ch,, will be discarded on October 1, y yhen thirteen days will be droppe cl fci j bring it into line with the calemla r of Western Europe. The life of a } ewe in England is five years, duriiig ; which period she yields five “crop! j” of wool, valued at about 355., an d, say, four lambs worth £1 each. The ewe’s carcass will, in tin > finish, be worth about another £l. ■Frederick Victi jr Stratford, aged 29, who was sen iteneed in London recently to 21 n ionths’ imprisonment for thefts from motor-cars, was said to hat m worn a chauffeur's Uniform, so that he could loiter near ears without exciting suspicion. Serving at tal fie, answering the door, scrubbing : floors and making beds were amott g the duties of a boy of 15 who was recently employed as a 'Trr aid” in a London house. He took . the job because he couldn’t get ai lything better. _