NEWS IN BRIEF

Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3913, 2 March 1929, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF

(Carols were first sung in the thirteenth century. Nearly 3000 miles of canals are in use in England. Motor-cars are more widely used in the Engisih provinces than in London. lodine in very small quantities is said to have a beneficial effect on all farm live-stock. Hurricanes which blow at a rate of 80 miles an hour exert a pressure of 32'1'b. per square foot. Tea from Java and Sumatra is gaining every year in Britain on the Ejmpire-grolwn product of India and Ceylon. In one London church (women and girls arc now permitted to remove their hats during service if they wish to do so. As there is no further need of them, four of the industrial schools under the London County Council are being closed. France receives over £50,000,000 a year from her visitors from other countries. Everything possible is done to attract tourists. No fewer than 1,000,000 street accidents, 40,000 of them being fatal, occurred in Britain in the ten years from 1918 to 1928. 'Some of the finest fleeces in Britain come fro|m the Orkney and Shetland Islands, where seaweed iormis a large part of the sheep’s foodstuff. “Polizeigefaengnisshauptwaehtmoisterein” is the official style of three chiefs of a new organisation of 150 Avojnen police to he established in Prussia.