NEWS IN BRIEF

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23339, 6 May 1939, Page 5 (Supplement)

NEWS IN BRIEF

Britain now has 1,107,000 telephones and makes 1,130,000,000 calls a year. Crime detection is now an official courso of study in ono American university. Sabbath formerly began at 3 p.m. on Saturday and lasted until daybreak on Monday. Thirteen is stated to be tho "naughtiest ago" in the life of the average boy. Houses and other properties standing empty in the London area number about 30,000. Before ho can take office, the Lord Mayor of London has to receive tho Royal approval. Regarded as fuel, two and a-lialf tons of good seasoned oak logs equal ono ton of coal. Ivory procured from tho tusks of the hippopotamus is more valuable tliau the elephant variety. The peoplo of Britain only consume half a pint of inilk a day each. Americans drink four-times as much. In 70G0 fires in London last year, only seven persons lost their lives through being trapped in burning buildings. British cinemas take £.'30,000,000 yearly in admission fees, the total weekly admission being something liko 23,000,000. Rickets, which cripples, in varying degrees, thirty-two children out of every 1000, is caused partly by the smoke pall over cities which cuts out the sun rst&s.