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Hokitika Guardian, 23 July 1924, Page 3

“H.\T('HKT-KACK[>." The modern iml list rin I worker is bcrnmiujt hatchet-laced. In a roc-ont lectmv in London Sir Arthur Kc-itli statod that comparisons of modern skulls with those of earlier times showed a distinct tendency for the lace to heroine loni'er and narrower, lie declared that this same tendency would probably he fiaind to he the result of a disturlsinee of the elahorate system ol hormones or internal •iland secretions, and that this disturbance also manifested il-clf in such ot-her abnormalities ; as enlarged tonsils, irregular teeth, and contracted palates. lie also ' simoested that tin- inteiference with the normal development niielit ultimately he due to some cause underlyiiin modern industrialism, such as a diet in which some vital quality 'was missiiio. or to insiillicieiit liolit. Ili.s researches had shown, he said, that, whatever the cause the shape ot the mouth was the palate beeomitio more narrow and the face longer. These conditions were not found in Kurland until after the deveJopment of industrialism in the ISth. century. Keith has shown that 2o |>cr cent, of modern Knjrlislimeii suder from dental abnormalities unknown in the bronze njie. and that, while the upper and lower teeth of early man met evenly, the upper teeth of modern men overlap the lower.

FATAL MOTOR ACT'I DF.NT. STRATFORD. July 2J. There was a fatal accident litis morning when a baker's motor delivery van belonging to T. Smith, cra>lied into the Kakouri stream, the driver, a young man named William Schneider, being pinned underneath and killed. Another occupant of the van escaped with a slight injury.

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