NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4433, 29 March 1930, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

The stall' of the British War Office now numbers 17,655, in addition to 7500 at the various ordnance factories. The total annual pay-roll is something like £3,500,000. London s new business palace, the offices of the Underground Railways, is built over St. James’ Park Station, and stands on a layer of felt to avoid any risk of vibration. .Most of the men who man the British lifeboats are volunteers;

tboy are paid every time they go out, on a scale which varies from 12/fi Lo 55/(5, according lo circumstances.

At Sandhurst the famous military college, there are -100 eadefs, who are wailed upon by 181 servants and grooms. The total average annual cost for each student, works out at £453. Hard fon 11 is courts are made of many substances, including Hagstones, sand, fibre matting, cork, wood and even linoleum. 'There is i,o ollioial standard as there is in (he case of halls and nets. Grey lounge suits, a looking-

glass, comfortable slippers, their own safely razors, and a strip of carpel on the cell door arc .some of Die “luxuries’’ now allowed to tlie inmates of British prisons.