GENERAL NEWS.

Shannon News, 2 October 1923, Page 4

GENERAL NEWS.

.The severe frosts have taken a severe toll of bottles of liquids in hotels, stores and the local pharmacy (says the Lake Wakatipu Press). The contents, in some instances, have been left standing as solid ice on the shelves while the bottles themselves liave fallen in pieces to the floor. The Ministry of Munitions explosive store and refinery plant at Chester has been sold for £300,000, which is estimated to be the original cost of the brick wall around the factory (says the London Daily Chronicle)! em Railways. There are big Storage both the Midland and the Great Northago this property cost the Government £500,000. It is by the side of the River Dee, and has access for 2,000 ton steamers. It is complete with its own railway sidings, which are connected with The purchasers are the Anglo-Scot-tish Finance Corporation. Seven years buildings, and the equipment includes pumps and engines. The factory covers 30 acres, which is f reehold. That the story of the German language is practically essential in the case of medical students was urged on the Marlborough College Board of Governors by Mr. J. J. W. White, who stated that he was in receipt of. a letter from an old student of the college at present pursuing his studies in London, to the effect that medical students there were under a great handicap in having no knowledge of the German language, and urging him to impress on the board the desirableness of ensuring that a study of the language was embraced in the course for the medical preliminary, Mr. McCallum said German was already an optional subject, but was not in favour at the present time. He believed that of the 800 odd students in the University of New Zealand, one was taking German just now. Mr. White took the opportunity to assure the board" that he had no sympathy for anything German, but said that he considered it his duty to bring the suggestion forward. The board took no action in: the matter.

To provide all men and women in Great Britain with a pension of 20s a week at • 65 years of age would cost £130,000,000 a year. '! .