MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 17 October 1922, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. MABLE ASSOCIATION. AN APPEAL REFUSED. (Received this day at 1.5 p.m). • LONDON October 16. The Chief Justice, in refusing leave to appeal in the case of George Hunt convicted of false pretences in connection with a Letting scheme cabled on 27th. July, said Hunt’s horse-racing friends from whom lie obtained a quarter of a million, duped a great many people. The present application was frivolous. Hunt deserved the sentence of three years imposed on him. TRAINING OF SERVANTS. VOICE CULTURE IN‘SYLLABUS. LONDON, Oct. 2. The British Government is subsidising a scheme for tho training of domestic servants, and has contributed 050,000. The training course lasts 13 weeks, and girls are paid £1 weeklv while attending classes. The syllabus includes hygiene, infant welfare, general knowledge, physical exercise, voice modulation, and singing. Miss Lilian Barker is in charge of the scheme, and says that the genera! knowledge imparted will enable the girls to speak correctly and in shop economically and properly. Physical exercise is necessary to teach them to walk quietly and decorously in respectable households. Singing is the fines' possible tuition in voice modulation.

BABY’S STRANGE DEATH. LONDON. Oct. 6. A I l-months-old child, playing with ;i bottle containing eight tablets o( Easton’s syrup, broke the Bottle and swallowed the tablets. The mother’s attention was attracted hv the child’s unnatural and extraordinary laughter. Later the little one became unconscious, and was taken to hospital, where it died.