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Hokitika Guardian, 7 March 1924, Page 4

NEWS BY MAIL.

MAILS BY AIR, LONDON, Jan. 21. The Duke nf Sutherland, Undersecretary for Air, arrived at Southampton yesterday in the C'unard fifer Vfjuitania on his return from United States. American civil aviation is under-de-veloped, he said, and is not in the same posiion as ours, because there is no Federal air law and no definite regulations as to flying. Anybody can fly, and the con sequences is that a number of itinerant pilots are flying with poor and badly repaired machines, and consequently there are many accidents, which put tin. 1 general public against civil flying. lint the American air mail service is wonderful. It is run by the post, office and ordinary charges are made, this part of the service being conducted at a loss. The carrying of letters from New York to San Francisco by air lakes about thirty hours. By train it takes about a week. WOMEN’S THICK Fit ANKLES. LONDON, Jan. 2-1. Paris fashion experts, who have decreed that women's dresses lor the coming spring and summer are to be longer, have now given their reasons for the change. "They have explained to us that longer dresses are made necessary by an increase in the size oi women s mi kies,” a Daily -Mail reporter was told at one of the big West End shops vesterday.

“Thcv shy it has been lound that the wearing ot very tight shoes, which look graceful hut are not comfortable, has tended to make women s ankles flabby. The muscles of the ankle have been restricted in their action as a result of the unnatural poise ol the loot m the high-heeled shoe.” The fashion-creators are determined now to hide women’s ankles as much as possible. All the latest gowns, coats, and clonks from Paris which are arriving in London are designed to give only a very slight glimpse of the ankle.

Low-heeled shoes are being recommended for wear with them. ARTIFICIAL SUN CURES. LONDON, Jan. 21. Artificial sunlight is being used al St. Thomas's Hospital, London, with extraordinary success in the treatment of children with rickets and tuberculous glands, bones, and abdomen, and of adults suffering from osteo-arthritis (inflammation of the bone- and joints). It has given equally good results in the treatment of chorea St. Vitus's dance. Dr Murray l.eviok, medical officer of 1. 1 1 0 electrical department- of the hospital, said yesterday : * - Wo are getting as good results hero with artificial sunlight as have been obtained bv real sunlight treatment in selected climates. P.v means of a combination oT lamps, one of which is the mercury vapour lamp, we ran make use of any of the rays of sunlight in any desired proportion. Children come hero run down, fretful, sleepless, and without appetite. In a month they are completely transformed by the sunlight treatment. TOO MANY C 1(1 A BETTES. LONDON. Jan. 21. Lecturing on Drug Addiction at the l-toya I Institution, Alhcmarlo-strcet, \V., yesterday. Dr W. E. Dixon said that anyone who smoked 20 cigarettes a day was putting .5 per cent of his blood out of play. An habitue might smoke 50 cigarettes a day without appreciable result, because his system had developed an attitude of tolerance. The danger of smoking was that it produced sudden alterations in the blood pressure and changes in the c’-ptic fibre: of the arteries A man smoked because it made bun feel brighter, enabled him to do more work, and to look at things from a happier point of view. It would require fit) cigarettes to prodme the amount of nicotine in the Wood produced by one cigar. Alcohol, said the lecturer, first affeeled the higher faculties of the mind such as judgment and .'elf-control. This explained the brilliance of the after-dinner speaker. Ether drinking, common in Northern Ireland before the war, had almost immediate effects and might produce intoxication four or five times in a day. STOMACH TANKS. CM It ISTIANIA, Norway, Jan. 21 A short time ago it was noticed that an unusually largo number of obese persons were to be seen in certain districts, and the police decided to investigate the cause. It was discovered that an enterprising tinsmith had evolved for the use of liquor smugglers light aluminium receptacles, which

wore attached to the, human, body by straps. In well-known smuggling districts the police now make a point oi approaching any persons of unusually ample proportions and asking for permission to tap the suspicious-looking part of their figures. II a metallic ring follows the tapping, the person is arrested. Tile Norwegian Government is proposing to abolish Prohibition. SCUTTLED FLEET. LONDON, Jan. 21 It was reported yesterday that .Messrs Cox and Dunks. Ltd., iron and steel inorchaii! s, of Queonborough. Sheerness. lmd secured a contract from the Admiralty for salving vessels of the German fleet sunk at Kcapn Flow. The Admiralty stated that negotiations had been entered into for salving certain vessels but no contract had been completed. There is no question of the ships being used again. Salvage will be undertaken solely for the purpose of breaking them up. The vessels scuttled by the Gormans at Sea pa Flow in June 1919 consisted of 5 battle-cruisers, 11 battleships, 9 light cruisers, and 2S destroyers. Twenty destroyers were beached, and by July 25, 1919, 17 destroyers, 1 battleship, and 3 light cruisers had been raised. LIKING FOR PRISON. LONDON, Jan. 21. AYhen Frederick Forder, 19, was charged al Ramsgate, yesterday, with stealing from his mother, the ( hief Constable said that Forder wanted to go baik in Maidstone Prison because tie en loved tbo lectures of Rottomlev and Re van so much. It was stated that Forder had absconded from homes on four occasions. Forder was committed for trial with a view of being sent to a Borstal institution. A Home Office official stated yesterday that the use of the word "lecture” was an exaggeration. "All that Boltoinlev has done,” he said, "has been to move a vote of thanks to lecturer, while Bevan has been giving hi-weekly lessons in French to follow-prisoners.” £200,900 A DAY. LONDON. Jan. 23. Wall Street experts predict the income of Air Henry Ford, the motor-car manufacturer, will be £200,090 daily in 1931 at the present rate r.f increase. Now his income is £80,9-90 a day, and his total wealth is estimated at approximately £170,000,000. —Exchange. Mr Ford, who is 00. was stated in 1922 to make a profit of nearly 25 per cent, oil each car his firm makes, lie derives much of his income from the sale of myriads of spare parts. During last year there was much talk of Air Ford becoming a Presidential candidate in tbe t nitod States, but be now says Mint lie will support Air Coolidgc.