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NEWS AND NOTES.

Motor-cars are more widely used in the provinces! than, in London.. The Metropolitan Fire Brigade, London, costs about £650,000 a year to maintain.

The world’s gold reserves are estimated at £2,519,800,000, the principal holders being America, Britain, France, and Japan. Half the total population of Britain lives in five industrial districts, which comprise only one-tenth of the total area of land.

It is authoritatively stated that one well-known British shot accounted for 50,000 wild ducks during his sporting life. Great Brtain has £4,000,000,000 invested in foreign countries; the figure for the United States is not much more than half this. Industries are springing up in British towns and villages so rapidly that even in the most rural districts factories may he seen. Many of the inhabitants of the Irish countries of Down and Antrim speak a form of old Scots, with little sign of the Irish tongue. London’s most used bridge is that of Wjestminster, followed by London Bridge, Vauxhall Bridge, Blackfriars Bridge, and Putney Bridge. A! collection of clocks, numbering 222 in all, and claimed as the finest collection in the world, was recently sold in London for £30,000

The growing popularity of the saloon type of motor-car in Britain is having the curious effect of causing lady motorists to discard hats.

London’s bill for elementary and 'higher education last year was £ll, 582,345; in 1917-18 it totallled only .'£5,802,529, about half the figure today. Trained to beat out flames, a dog at Horbury, near Wakefield, England, extinguishes matches or cig-arette-ends dropped by passers-by. The word “set” has so many different meanings and extentions that it takes 30,000 words in the Oxford English Dictionary to deal with it.

Tickets issued by the Great Western Railway during 1927 numbered 100,000,000. Placed end to end, they would stretch a distance of 2022 miles. A Russian scientist claims that by using certain chemicals he can make the inanimate bodies of men and animals transparent and invisible.

Flamingoes and birds of similar structure take time to get up speed to fly. Hence it is that they can be kept in open enclosures at 1 zoological gardens. Pennies to the number of 800, 000,000 are collected every year in London from the slot gas meters of consumers served by the Gas Light and Coke Company. In Russia there is a “language island,” where about a million and a half German-speaking people form a community founded in the first case by Catherine the Great. There is one policeman to each acre and to every twelve of the population of the City of London. This latter figure refers, of course, to the small night population.

“There is 85 quid of that,” said a witness at the Supreme Court in Wanganui a day or two ago, at the hearing of a claim arising out of the sale of a motor truck. “You mean 85 pounds, I suppose,” corrected Mr. Justice Smith. “There is 12 quid for the body,” continued witness. “I suppose you mean 12 pounds again,” said His Honour. “Look after your English a little bit.”

It is curious how short words tend to drive out long words. “Automobile” is almost dead; everyone says “car” nowadays. What was once called a “kinematograph” 'is now called a “film;” “omnibus” has dwindled to “bus,” and “underground electric railways” have become “tubes.” “Electricity” is still called “electricity,” but th|e “Electoral Times” wishes it to be called “lek,” so as to save time and breath. It thinks this new 7 word is short and sweet, like “gas,” the rival commodity, which but for a lucky chance might have been called “pneumaphlogiston.” “We must put this “ragging” business down; it is not at all fair % four big young chaps on to one boy.” This was what Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., told a trio of youths in fining them £1 for assault, in the Auckland Magistrate’s Court, yesterday. Another boy, who did not appear, was fined a similar sum. Sub-Inspector McCarthy said that the four youths got hold of the boy, who was working in a garage with them, and rubbed grease on his body. They did it as a joke, and never intended it to be an assault.

“Don’t you know that every Englishman’s house is his castle. The King himself can’t go walking in just when he likes —yet you have the impudence to go prowling round while people are away. It’s intolerable impudence, even if there’s nothing worse about it,”,said Mr. G. Gruikshank, S.M., to a 16-year-old boy who appeared before him in the Children’s Court at Dunedin charged with being found on premises without any lawful excuse during the absence of the occupier (reports the “Otago Daily Times”). Sergeant Abel said that the boy had been seen walking round the back of the hut and into the back door. When he was caught he gave a wrong name. The boy said that he went to a tank at the back of the hut to get a drink of water. He admitted looking in the back door, but gave no excuse. The Child Welfare Officer, Mr. G. Brendon, said that ithe boy had left school, but had done no work. His father stated that he was difficult ito control. “He’D only get more uncontrollable if he doesn’t get a job to occupy his energies,” commented the Magistrate. “He is a big strong boy and should do well on a farm. He will be placed under the supervision of the Child Welfare Officer for a year.”

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Ngā taipitopito pukapuka

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3885, 18 December 1928, Page 4

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Tapeke kupu
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NEWS AND NOTES. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3885, 18 December 1928, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3885, 18 December 1928, Page 4

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