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Hokitika Guardian, 22 September 1923, Page 4

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GIRL’S ACHJEYEAIENT. LONDON, July 27

At a meeting of the Birmingham Board of Guardians yesterday Air 1!. Wbaite slated that a girl formerly in their care had gained a Bachelor of Arts degree at Birmingham University

tier inline was not disclosed so that her connection 'with the institution might not prejudice her future, but it was stated that she is about ltd. She was boarded out in Warwickshire and showed such promise during her seliooi days that a teacher recommended that she should be given a chance to go to a university. 'I his was agreed tu. She showed special aptitude for languages, and will take a position as teacher in a council .secondary school. THE -MAGIC BEAN. LONDON, July 20. Billiards balls at present being grown at the Knyal Botanic Gardens, Regent's Park, N.W., are doing very nicely in the warm sunshine and a big crop of them is Imped for. They are the most recently discotered yield of the Suva beau, whoso natural home is in the far blast. lint billiards balls are not the only uses to which Hie Soya can be put. It can lie utilised as: A substitute for knife and umbrella handles, buckles, and beads. As an ingredient of cheese, flour, table-oil, cake, sauce, and soap. In making lubricating and illuminating oil, glycerine, paint, varnish, eelluuid, printing ink, waterproots, explo sives, and linoleum. Soya beams must, however, be lamed before they can lie grown properly in this country. M r ,) . L. North, rural or of the T’oya'i Botanic Gardens, who lias been nine years bringing them to the pressdegree of docility, said yesterday lie has little room for tliem in the gardens, but at, Chiswick lie is experimenting with 17 species from Manchuria and America. “To this country, which grows no oil plants, their cultivation is of great importance.”

LIED FOR. A KISS. LONDON, July 2d

After kissing the wife of .John Calvert, George Aid,end, a trawler skipper. was knocked down by her husband and died, it was stated at a ( leotimrpes (Lincolnshire) impiest: yesterday. McLeod bad been drinking, and tinmedical evidence was that be had a diseased heart and liver, death being due to heart failure produced by the shock of the fall. Me was 7>l. and weighed 18 stone. The jury returned a verdict of -Jut,likable Homicide, the foreman saying, they did not consider Calvert guilty ol unv unlawful act.