NEWS IN BRIEF

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XXVI, Issue 7904, 19 September 1929, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF

Anniversaries bo-day : Battle of Poictiers, 1356; President Garfield of U.S.A., died, 1881. An air yacht, the first in Great Britain, is under construction at Southampton. TJie elementary schools of London have 18,353 .fewer children this year than in 1928. Articles of the Kellog anti war pact are incorporated in a Friendship and Arbitration Pact signed between Greece and Czechoslovakia, Seven hundred and sixty pounds was paid at Hodgson’s (London) for a firrt edition of Keac’s “Endymion,” which was bought 30 years age for 10 guineas. The five chief constables of the London Metropoltan Police—two of whom receive salaries of £IOOO a year—are each given a boot allowance of Is a week, the same amount as that of constables. One of the five is a brigadier and another a major.