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Hokitika Guardian, 27 December 1923, Page 4

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WORKING AT 100. LUX DON Oi l. 23. ! .Mr 1-0," IWhill, at the age of KM.), j ha-, ju l retir'd D-.mi active work | agent lot a I lull tit in of >Na{« r « mmi ; he served for 50 years. At 97 he still shaved himself with an j ordinary razor and until a few weeks ago he walked 7 or 8 miles daily col- j let-ting accounts. Last .July lie was knocked down w hen getting oil' a tramway-ear. A cut mi j his head was Hitched, and lie went hi- j rounds unaided next day. lie kepi his on II books a id can read j without .spectacles. lie lias alv.ay- been a teetotaller and j a non-smoker. MOTH VXD (.'AMUiIVIE TRADITION. J LONDON. Nov. 5. Scientists are trying to rob u- of (be ■ venerable household tradition that j camphor and naphthalene sprinkled on ; clothes will keep away mollis. According to their views (expressed in XiiLiiri-j neither Mihslan-e is of any us,- at all. Mr lb G. .luhn-ioii write;: "Henri t- -'re found camphor and naphthalene to have no cll'erL on mollis, and I have found the e in-eels utterly i.'i-dill'm-nt to such odoril'.-r.uis sub-tanc: s. Doubt, is oxpie.-sp.l a- to whether a moih is capable oi smelling at all.

Tito head of the fur department of it loading West End firm said: “Wo ITiiu Hint enclosing naphthalene or camphor with furs when they arc put away, dots to a largo extent keep out the moth. But if there should bo moth in the furs al the time they are pul away, or moth is lunched from eggs in the fur, the compiler or ntiptlialeiie will nut exterminate them: in fact, they seem to tluive on it. It is a preventive, hut not a cure. “The only sure way to prevent moths iat aging a fur is to put it in storage I clow freezing point. Then it is impossible for any eggs to hatch out.'' An official of the entomological section of the Natural History Museum said it wa.s pute assumption to assert that mollis could not smell, for no one knrv . Ills experience was that liapnIhdetU: was the only thing to keep moths away. ‘T’ut ntipthalene halls with the clothes,“ he said, ''and then wrap the clothes in stout paper, taking care to pin it v. 11 all round, so that nothing can get in. Then they will he quite safe from moth. It is no good putting the clothes in a drawer and just sprinkling them with a few tmpthelcne balls.' 1