NEWS IN A NUTSHELL

Taranaki Daily News, 16 April 1932, Page 13 (Supplement)

NEWS IN A NUTSHELL

THE WORLD AT A GLANCE

Rabbits are proving so destructive in the cemetery at Stanford-le-Hope, Essex, that permission has been given to a local- man to shoot them.

Telegraph boys in London, of whom there are 17,000, walk 12 miles a day, or cycle 20 miles a day, m the course of their 48 hours of duty each week. Licenses to use armorial bearings on motor-cars and carriages in Great Britain are taken out by 35,000 people. Insurance companies are said to have found that doctors are the worst motoring “risk,” both for large and small claims. Women are among the best where heavy claims are concerned, but they rank high as “trivial” claimants.

Candidates for the post of announcer in one American broadcasting company had to.pass a test, one phrase of which is “The seething sea ceaseth, and thus the seething sea sufficeth us.” Only 10 of the 2500 tested in the last two years received appointments. The old idea of barter is at the bottom of a contract which the Cartagena shipbuilders have entered into with the Soviet. They are to build 50 tank steamers, and. the bill will be paid in petrol from Russia.

Prospectors walking along a road at Chakari, in Southern Rhodesia, the other day discovered that it had been repaired with gold-bearing 'rock! The rank's of the American millionaire's are sadly depleted. The number of incomes in excess of 1,000,000 dollars (approximately £200,000) has dropped to 149, which is 504 fewer than in 1929. The centenary of the British Medical Association will be celebrated this year. The annual meetings are to be held in London, and the centenary dinner will take place at the Albert Hall on July 28. The incoming president is Lord Dawson.

By flying 1100 miles in a day—from Bushire, Persia, to Karachi, India, an Imperial Airways liner has created a commercial record.

If every driver of a London General Omnibus Company’s ’bus failed to stop to pick up a penny fare each day, and every conductor omitted to collect a similar fare from one passenger in the same period, the company would stand to lose £55,000 a year.

Clyde shipbuilding had its worst year' on record in 1931, the drop representing a 70 per cent, fall from 1930 and 80 per cent, from 1913, which was the best year on record. ■ > ' ’ \

So many commercial firms have opened offices i:’ the West End of London that trains formerly running to the City are being diverted to Charing. Cross. Here 30,000 more passengers are dealt with daily than there were in 1926.

Worry was described as “interest paid on trouble before it fell due”, by Dean Inge in the second of his series of addresses to young people at St. Fanis Cathedral, London. He recalled the words of a man who, looking back on his life, said: “I have had many troubles. Most of them never happened.

A oroup of women and boys attacked the civil guard at Madrid and attempted to hold a train on which a contingent of newly enlisted soldiers were being taken to Saragossa. The women declared they did not wish their sons, brothers and relatives to serve in the army.

A jrreat golfer is lost to England, by the announcement that T. P. Perkins, the former British amateur champion, has decided to become an American citizen and to reside in the United States. Whatever prospect there was of Perkins playing for Great Britain against America in the next contest for the Walker Cup thus disappears.

Men repairing a road 100 miles from Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia,, have unexpectedly struck a gold reef, while an important diamond discovery has been reported in Tanganyika. A meeting of English journalists at Brooklands aerodrome decided to form a Press Aero Club, which will be open to journalists and others , connected 'with the press who are interested in aviation.

Locusts have been a terrible scourge jq Africa and other tropical countries. Now, however, by a new process, fat is being extracted from the carcases, and it is° found to constitute an excellent raw material for soap. The trouble is to get enough of them and also a steady supply to keep a factory going.

For the first time for 50 years snow fell in Hollywood recently, says the Chicago Tribune Paris edition. The streets were covered with a thin layer of white —a circumstance which warmed the hearts of film directors, who were “shooting” snow scenes. They lost.no time in getting the high-salaried stars , on the “set” in order to take advantage of the real thing.

Orders have been given by the French Air Ministry for specimens of a newly invented bombing ’plane said to be 'greatly in advance of existing army 'machines in speed and performance. The ’’plane has four air-cooled engines and is 'armed with five machine guns and I'l 'bomb projectors. It can carry a crew of four, more than a ton of explosives, 'and more than two tons of fuel. Its range is said to be 1427 miles and its < speed 150 miles an hour.

Twelve “baby” Ford cars were secretly shipped to England a few weeks ago, reports the Michigan Manufacturer and Financier. The cars are less than ten feet long, with a bumper width of 55 inches, height 53 inches, and a fourcylinder engine 11 inches long. It is presumed that the new baJby cars will serve as models for the production of bantam Fords to compete with small European models, and will be turned out in large numbers at the Ford works at Dagenham and other European branches.

Professor Low, the scientist, produced photographs of the sounds from motorcar exhaust pipes at Spelthome Sessions, England, when Charles Richard Fairey, of Iver Heath, Bucks, was summoned for driving a car which made an excessive noise. The magistrates dismissed the case. Mr. Fairey is the designer of. the famous Fairey aeroplane and is chairman of the Fairey Aviation Company.