NEWS IN BRIEF

Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4463, 10 June 1930, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF

No fewer than seven new theatres were lately in process of erection the West End of London. The old sulphur springs near the Lake of Galilee are to he exploited find turned into a modern spa. The blind vicar of Brafferton, near Easingwold, in Yorkshire, has died, after 53 years as vicar there. There are move than one hundred different types of coffee. Brazil providing as many as forty varieties. The quantify of meat consumed by the British Army at home dur--11- a period of six months is approximately 5800 tons. On an average, each person in London makes 453 journeys yearly ,n train, bus, and tram. The fill re for New York is 554. Tinned potatoes form the latest feature of the canned goods industry in Britain—a new factory i«; fo put up 5000 tins a day. During artillery observation ox- ■ crises at Brassehnet, Belgium, a military aeroplane caughf lire and crashed. The two airmen were killed. The National Savings Bank Committee in Britain lately announced that the grand total of National Savings Certificates sold was 910,250,531. Tt costs £8 a week in feed a sealinn in ihe London Zoo; the lion of l lie jungle, on the. other hand, receives 18d worth of cat’s meat a day. To produce a year’s rain for a tennis eonrl by means of condonation of steam from nn ordinary electric kettle would cost over £BOO in electrieilv.