NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3811, 28 June 1928, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

There arc 416,530 victims \of leprosy in the British Empire. London spends more than £12,500,000 annually on education. Britain has about £5,000,000 in silver in circulation or in the banks.

Aerial routes, whic-It now serve 400 towns, measure about 55,000 miles.

Recruits for the Toronto Police Force must not exceed 1891)>. in weight or 6ft. in height.

There are ninety-five different kinds of Brussels sprouts, 120 of lettuces, and 19-1 of carrots. This, year the Cyclists’ Touring Club, which was founded in IS7S in England, celebrates its jubilee.There is an annual wastage, through ‘wear, of between £4OOO and £SOOO in the British silver coinage. Great Britain has now over 1,500,000 telephones, an increase of 8.3 per cent, over the figure for 1920. While the population of England and Wlales has more than doubled since 1838, the general death-rate has been halved. A bank clerk in Britain can count out £IOO in silver coins in nine or ten minutes, if he has not to examine the coins in doing so. In the strongest vaults in the world, situated in the Royal Mint, London, bullion worth £70,000,000 is sometimes stored. Knee bracelets, woven in gold or platinum and set with precious stones, is a fashionable “fad” among the ladies of Paris just now.