NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4512, 2 October 1930, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF.

In a (10,000-ton steamship there are at least 25,000 tons of steel ami other metals.

Thirty-five million rabbits, weighing 40,000 tons, are caught every year in Great Britain. • ,

Common colds cost the people of New York more than £1,000,000 a year in lost working time alone.

Women officers at the London Metropolitan Police receive their training at Peel House, in mixed classes.

The vogue of Christinas cards began about 1862, in which year they were issued for the first time in quantity. London will, within the next few years, need about twenty aerodromes on its outskirts, according to Sir Allan 'Cobham. John D. Rockefeller, senior, the Anieircan millionaire, has enrolled himself as a Boy Scout. He is ninety years of age. The turkey is named after “The Turkish Trading Company,” which was the first importer of the bird mi a large scale. The first petrol motor tire engine and motor pump combination, built in 11)04, lias 'been acquired by South Kensington Science Museum. A coin of George V. resembles one of Queen Victoria in that the effigy “looks” to the left, a King Edward coin “looking” to the light. ft costs about £215,400 a year to run the British Museum. The Natural 'History Museum, South Kensington, costs less than half this.