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Hokitika Guardian, 30 April 1924, Page 3

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F.XTR AY AO ANT R ELI EK. LONDON, March 3

A man who appeared at Bow Comity Court yesterday said that he could get 51s fid per week for merely walking about, hut he preferred employment on relief road work for which he could earn only 50s a week. Judge Snagge: Where can you get 51s 6d for doing nothing? The Man : From the West Ham Guardians in relief, as 1 have live children, the eldest being only 10. STREET’ FOOTBALL. LONDON, QEircli 5. Several thousand people assembled for the Shrove Tuesday football kicking yesterday afternoon in the streets of" Atherstone, Warwickshire. The game was kept up for two hours after which the hall was smuggled awu.v. A similar game was played at C hes-terle-Street, Durham, where most ol the shops in the main street were hoarded up, though one unprotected plate glass window was smashed. The custom is said to date from the 13th cert tury. GIRLS’ STRIKE PARADE. LONDON, March 1. (’allying red banners, 150 girls employed making "jumpers” at Messrs llainner and Company’s works at Norwich, on strike for higher wages, paraded the streets yesterday. As they passed the factory one or the principals of the firm raised his hat and insisted oil walking at the head of

the procession. On one haulier wore the words. “ AVe make ladies’ silk and woollen garments sold in the . West End from five guineas.” Another had, “Our ages arc from 18 to 20. AVe work 4(U hours :l week and receive from os to 175.”

extracting insulin

LOXDI )X. March .>

Extinction of insulin by means ot water and picric acid, which is much cheaper than the alcohol process, was demonstrated at the Middlesex Hospital last night. The powder produced after eiirld stages was said to he such a powerful remedy that a quarter id on ounce would suffice lor hall •> year’s treatment of all the Middlesex diabetic patients. ‘•lf this process is carried out on a commercial scale,” said the demons! lator. “the cost will lie reduced by half ” l,i HOCUS TO WASH, UP. * LONDON, March 5. Five residents of "Wimbledon S.AAL, were sued at Kingston County Court yesterday by Adiianus Doesburg of Wimbledon, for wages in lieu of notice. It was stated that in one case he

was engaged as a chauffeur hut i\ns dismissed "after being sentenced to « month’s hard labour for being drunk in change of n. motor-ear. Then he obtained a job as a domestic servant, hut was dismissed for incompetence. it being said that he took throe hours to wash up after breakfast, and 4,1 hours after luncheon and •did not serve any tea. He lost a situation as a kitchen porter -or assaulting another servant. ■\V hen he was given permission to go to church lie was away for five hours. The registrar, who described him as a Jack of all trades and master of none found against him on all his claims. LUMINOUS MAN. I'AItTS, Alarch 1. A medium who emits strange bluishwhite rays is said to have been discovered l»y Professor Geliy, of the Metaphysical Institute of Paris. He is an Italian wine merchant named Erto. Stripped, washed. X-rayed to show he had not Toncealeil or swallowed anything, Erto in a dark room disseminated light which surrounded him like a. halo. Sealed photographic plates! showed an effect as if they had been exposed to daylight. Professor Geliy thinks the powerfu emotion Erto undergoes while in the trance produces high electric tension in the body resulting in the luminous emanations.