NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3915, 7 March 1929, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Two Englishwomen, each of 'vvliofni runs a large quarry, share the unique honour of being the only two women members elected to the Institute of Quarrying. Dropping bombs containing suitable chemicals from an aeroplane on big fires is a novel suggestion put forward by a member of the London County Council. Divorces in England and Wtales work out roughly at one in every hundred marriages. In the United States one marriage in every ten ends in the divorce court. •So much freight has been airborne between London and Berlin recently that special “air lorries” are under construction. hese planes will not carry any passengers. Using all his spare time during the past three years, a ticket collector on the Great Western Railway ait C aerleon Monmouthshire, 'has built himself a six-roomed bungalow. Last November was the warmest eleventh month recorded in London for fifteen years, although in some parts of southern' England it nearly won another record for wetness. Next summer will see a mammoth Boy Scouts’ oa|mp near Birkenhead, England. 'The movement will Ibe celebrating its 21st birthday, and over 30,000 lads of all nations will, it is expected, join in the jamboree. Belgium is now (busier than ever. There were 27,600,000 tons of coal mined iii 1927, an increase of 4,800, 000 over 1914; the land under cultivation has risen from 4,465,742 acres in 1913 to 4,526,500 acres to-day. Persons in receipt of poor relief in Britain during September last, numbered 844,600; of these 650, 500 were women and- children. Outdoor relief averaged 5s 9d per head as compared with 2/6 in 1914. What is to be the largest suspension bridge iu the world is being built over the Hudson River, New York. The towers on the banks will each be 635 ft. in height, while the span of the bridge will be 3500 ft. in length.