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Hokitika Guardian, 22 November 1923, Page 3

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I.AAVYEIt LOYEIS. BRUSSEL:-., 8 1 '!' 1 • In the Law Courts this morning a man and vif--. AI. and dim-. Moreio Grovers, cat h look the usual oath as barrist'-rs. 'limy elected t" practl.-e at the Bar of Antwerp. The president of the Court, in making the eu.-tomary coiigra! ulalions. ,-Hided ihose u-ualiy |-: e-m:l'-! n newly’ married eoiiple. BABY MONOI’LANE. LON DIIN, Seiu. ID I n a 5-ii.p. im Deplane built by the Ai? Navigation and Engineering Co., cf Addh-stoiie. Surrey, Mr -I. 11. James cm Saturday llew from I: rnnkhtllds to Croydon and hack. The distance each way i- ahout 151 miles, lint Air .fanies a|-o did a considcrahle amount ol fancy Hying. The machine altaiiicd a -;?""il of 72 miles per hour and rose to a hcigln of 1,5011 feet. II is filled w ith a Blackburn i vo-eylinder engine similar in a umlor-cycle engine hut in verted.

workshop thrift. I.OXDOX. Sept. 111. Span king on “Thrill schemes in industry" tit the Industrial Welfare Conference at. Oxford yesterday. Sir William Schooling, vice-chairman of lb.‘National Savings Committee, said the hast opinion was that there was m> moral obligation on the employer to provide for the old ag ■ of his workers, but there was some moral obligation to pay employees at such a rate a- would enable them io malo 1 provision tor themselves and to facilitate the making of that provision by encouraging concerted action among the employees. Endowment schemes under which a veer's xalorc was paid on til" death i.f tile employee had become popular : ■ surprising- extent m lie ( luted Males, but such schemes mud" no provision R>r stipcraniimu ion. It: would lie a good plan ill coiinect.iou with savings a.-sm-mtum-- m works for Hi" employ, r to gneraiiieo ilmv in the event of death bco-r.. idu -livings met,mulcted to if tint the employer would make no the -avings to that sum. There would h > no real risk ol unduly heavy claims, and employers could carry the risk i hemselvi** and p-.n the claims as they arose. SALK Of' KM PI RE fiOODs. Til At K KR. I.OXDOX. September lib With reference to a criticism by Dr. llei-'ry P. .1. Thtu ex-M;iyor of Christchurch. New Zealand, of the facilities given for the purchase o! Empire products in T’.ritain. Air A. .1. Aiill's, of Ale-sis A. .1. Mills and Co., bid., of Teo’ey-stivct. S.'E. writes: ‘lt Dr Thacker K basing his emiliients on what be Ini' sten in this country dining the last two or llnoo months. I would like pat ticuh rly to point out. ii> him the fact that New Zealand lnittor arrives in quantity here from December to Juno, and during the months of Julv to November only limited supplies are available, prom December to .Tune SO to DO per cent, of the retail shops in this country sell New Zealand butter, and it is also a fact that during the last few years retailers have pushed New Zealand butter and that its reputation with the consumer has been enhanced to a very marked extent. Dr. Thacker is absolutely incorrect in stating that the large quantity of New

Zealand butter that comes into this country is nearly all used to mix with margarine. Fully 70 to 80 per cent, of the margarine* sold in this country has no butter at all in its composition The consumer is fairly wideawake in getting value for money, and 1 am indined to think thill when Dr. Thacker criticises the ,-etail trade a 11..! stales that they foist Argentine lamb on their customers as New Zealand Canterbury lamb the case must be a very exceptional one.’’ AGED AVALKKR. BAGDAD. Sept ID. In the village ~f Zobair, outside Basra. there lives a man. Abu Seraih Ali ilm Ahdullam. who is believed to ("■ 12(1 years old. He t(link- nothing even yet ol walking tnun Zobair to Bar-a and iiack, a distance of 11 mile-, ill one day. He preserve.- all his faculties to a remarkable degree. His teeth arc strong and white and he walks with an upright carriage. lie has had I I sons and one daughter, and until recently was quite equal to a full day’s limiting. He prefers motor cars to camels, hut he will not fly, as he thinks he might get giddy and fall out of the aeroplane. He lives .-imply oil bread, dates and mill:. One of hi- greatest interests is horse racing, which he follows both in this country and l'rt India.