NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3915, 7 March 1929, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

Tight hats worn by so many ,wo:men to-day, 'are it is said, likely to result iu baldness becoming as common among women as it is among men.

An American aerodrome has a pilot light so strong that if it were focussed on land 50 miles away it would (be .possible to read a newspaper by it. There are said to he t : wo“danger periods” in the day when, factory accidents in Britain are most liable to happen —'between 9.30 aim. and 10 a.m., and between 4.30 p.m. and 5 p.m. A. .. ,

A Scotsman went one evening to call upon an old friend, who received him in a rocking chair. The visitor was surprised that liis host did not rise to greet him, but continued to rock backwards and forwards in the chair. “Ye’re no ill are ye, mon?” he asked. “No, Andrew; I’m quite weel,” replied the other. There was a moment’s silence while Andrew stared at the rocking figure with a .puzzled expression. “Then why are ye behaving like that mon?” lie said. His friend explained. “Ye ken McBride, the jeweller? Weel, he sold me a siller watch cheap, an’ if I stop moving like .this _ yon watch won’t go!”

A new grass that is said to promise to revolutionise stock husbandry has appeared —and not in America. According to the director of the division, of botany of the Department of Agriculture of Durban, that organisation has secured a grass of outstanding merit and great promise. It is known as “woolly finger grass.” 'The average carrying capacity of Pretoria veldt was usually estimated at 30 acres per beast, he said, but by laying down one acre of this grass under dry land conditions, it had been shown conclusively that it was possible to change the carrying capacity of the veldt from 30 acres to a beast to one acre per beast. “If this can be done on a large scale this experiment twill be of immense value” naively adds the authority quoted. If the millions of acres in Africa can be made to carry a beast to the acre the other Dominions .will be left well behind.