NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4412, 8 February 1930, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Sawdust obtained l'roin tlie gang • \vu, a tree native to India, is providing- a motor fuel wiiieli has given excellent results under tests.

As a generator of body heat, one pint of fresh milk is as good as 7oz. of lean beef, live eggs, 11b. of chicken llesh, or nearly 21b. of cod.

A liritish Travel Association has been formed, with an income of fib,ooo a year, to encourage travel at home and to attract foreign visitors.

Beginning- with 21 boys 21 years ago, .the Boy Scout movement uow numbers nearly 2,000,000 members, belonging to 50 different nationalities.

Scalfolders at work on repairing the British Houses of Parliament are paid height money on account of the dangerous nature of their culling. A plant called the niguerilla, growing in Mexico, supplies an oil which is good ;at all temperatures and consequently very useful for aircraft motors.

Glass-topped tables, with chairs, are one of the suggestions for "brighter post oilices” made by a commission of inquiry in the United States.

A miner at Walsall, Bug-land, has in four years lost in betting on horses and dogs the whole of £SUU he received in compensation for an accident.

So much metal is used nowadays that the world’s supply of iron, mercury, zinc, lead, copper, and aluminium is said to be showing signs of exhaustion. Ail transatlantic telephone calis pass through London and New York, If an American wishes to speak to Berlin the call must go through Loudon.

Thirty- thousand electric lamps have been used in one gigantic London sign used by an Oxford Street store in advertising its twentieth anuiversax’y.