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Increase in Workers rr'1-1E remarkable rise of Indicates Britain's L prosperity in 'Britain is in
Trade Recovery . dicated by the total of unem ployed, which is now below 1,500,000 for the first time since January, 1930. .Of these, less than 500,000 are in the manufacturing industries—about one-third of the number in 1931. The total number of registered insured persons in employment in this country has increased by nearly 2,000,000 since 1932, and at the present. time is 11,394,000.
ONE of those mischievous words that are a bugbear to
Some Knotty "Nets" that are Apt to Blunt the Pen tired journalists is "not.'' It
has a habit of hiding itself or transforming itself into " now," thus completely reversing the true sense of a sentence. Its accidental omission has proved an expensive error for at least £30
one newspaper. In other cases, its caperings are merely amusing or mystifying, as on the recent occasion when a Licensing Authority was reported in a local newspaper as having said "I am going to issue licences to operators who do not look after their vehicle."
A Case of Kindness A GOOD story is told of a Which Brought Its 1-1. somewhat nervous driver
Own Reward . . who was asked for a lift. He agreed, and his passenger casually mentioned that he had just been released from a term of imprisonment for robbery with violence. This so unnerved the driver that he accidentally passed some light signals and was caught. At the end of the trip the passenger descended, thanked his benefactor, arid said : " It is quite all right about the lights, because I have the policeman'o notebook."
AMOST interesting feature of the annual conversazione of the Institution of Civil Engineers, which took place on Wednesday, was a special exhibit dealing with the development of methods of construction of roads and bridges from Roman times to the present day. It included sections and diagrams, cores drilled from concrete, samples of both wood paving and stone setts on concrete, coloured asphalt, etc., and indicated the continual efforts which are being made towards improving road construction and surfacing.
Civil Engineers Show Developments in Road Construction . .
Synthetic Paint which r XCELLENT results are Proves Cheap and I-4 being obtained with enamel Durable made with synthetic resin of the glyptal type, such as is employed on Ford vehicles. It is claimed for this material that two coats of synthetic paint give the covering and lasting qualities of three coats of the cellulose type, whilst weatherometer tests have indicated better weather-resisting powers. Synthetic enamel can be applied rapidly, as the individual coats do not require to be rubbed to give them a high