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Hokitika Guardian, 18 January 1922, Page 3

SYDNEY, January 18. 1 PHYSICAL TRAINING. j As a proof of the value of military training of boys, official figures show that in 1911 when compulsory training was inaugurated twenty-five per cent were physictlly unfit to undergo even the smallest amount of citizen military trtining. In 1915 the percentage was reduced to twenty-one and the latest report give it as ten per cent. ... , GERMAN EXPORT TO RUSSIA BERLIN, Jan 16. German exports to Russia are rapid- j lv increasing. Of goods unloaded at Petrograd in 1921, a third came from Germany . A PECULIAR WILL. LONDON, Jan 16. The will of the late Alexander Brown, house .factor' of Kilmarnock, (who left £IOO,OOOO to an organisation styled “The Noble Resolve of Gospel and Temperance Mission Auxiliary, for the promotion of temperance prevention enabling Btrikes, wars, and social evils), is being contested by the wart-of-kin on the ground that the organisation failed to constitute a trust. It is constituted that Brown lived most frugally and paid his house-keeper 14s weekly for board and lodging.. He . reluctantly granted her an additional sixpence. His annual income was then between £4,000 and £5,000. The parties effected a settlement.