NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3993, 5 September 1929, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF.

American manufacturers are ex peetin»' to cyport one million mo-tor-ears this year.

The country is richer this year than last by at least £500,000 wotrtli of playing-fields. •A wealthy iChilean has ‘bequeathed £250,000 for charity iii r ' 'and around Seville.

Straw hats for men, known as “-boaters" now out of favour in this country, are Is'till fashionable wear in France and Italy. The British Post Office rate of interest of 2-1 per cent, on savings deposits was fixed in 1861. England cathedral cities show up very favourably in the crime statistics, in comparison to their sizes.

Oaks are so long in maturing that the planting of them is not regarded as a commercial proposition.

Letters to the number of 160,000 were sent by air out of England last year, while the total weight of British air mails was -about five tons. In America the air mails average 230 tons every month. Mr. Justice Eve, who was born in London more than seventy years ago, has never been inside the National Gallery, Tate Gallery, British Museum, the Mint, Bank of England, or the 'Towejr. London lire brigades are mainly equipped with ladders 55 ft. in length, while in the majority of tires in London the greatest danger to life is at a height of from 50ft. to 60ft. from the ground. A. coaching Marathon between lI.M, Folrces and the Metropolitan Mounted Police was -one of the attractions at the Mounted Police Tournament at Irnber Court, Thames Ditton, in July. Measuring only 25ft. from wingtip to wing-tip, and capable of dying more than forty miles per gallon of fuel, a new type of “baby” aeroplane was recently demonstrated at IBrooklands Ae/rodrome.