BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 11 February 1925, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

AUSTRALIAN AM) N.Z. CAULK ASSOCIATION MR ASQUITH’.-) TITLE. LONDON, Feh. 19. Two members of the Harley family, descendants of the Earl of Oxford created in 1711. and also member of the Devore family, have entered caveats on Mr Asquith's title.

WIRELESS PREFERRED TO WHISKY. THE SONG OF THE 'TRADESMEN. (Received this dav at 9.25 a.m.) LONDON. Feh. |9. Apart from the Pest Office figures showing wireless licenses last year yielded revenue to the amount of £250,955 sterling of which Cl80,LSI) went Lo the British Broadcasting Coy. there are other proofs of the wide vogue of wireless. In the Licensing Court a witness to-day declared the workers now preferred wireless to whisky, hut Hie most, amusing development is the outburst of trade rivalry which has originated through the fruit salesmen broadcasting a ditty urging the people to eat more fruit, which is less injurious than meat. Thereupon the aggrieved butchers broadcasted a song to eat more meat and now the fish mongers have taken lip the challenge as to-nmrrow morning all the Billingsgate salesmen have been ordered to assemble at 9 o'clock Lo devote half an hour to rehearsing a wireless chorus to eat more fish.

MENTAL HOSPITAL METHODS. LONDON. Feh. 11. Montgomery Parker. Chairman ol the National Society for Lunacy Reform. in giving evidence before the Royal Commission urged that patients and their Iriends should have the right of appeal lo a judicial authority if an inmate of an asylum is persistently refused leave on probation. Parker said his society had eases of ill-treatment in asylums, including pummelling in the stomach resulting in instances, in broken ribs. Many cases were really a battle of wills, resulting in the patient’s will being broken. Ayonseine was also administered as punishment and croton oil was the most viohmi purgative known, which struck lerroi into the patients.

NEW TYPE OF AIRSHIP. NEW YORK, Feh. 11. A telegram from Dearborn, Michigan. states a, new type of dirigible will he built at a local automobile plant (Ford’s) for the Government, ibis being the first step towards establishing a three days' passenger service between Detroit and I ondon. According to the Aircraft Developing Corporation it will he a metal ship, and have a skin ol duralumin. The plates will nnlv he eight-thousandths of an inch thick, but six times stronger than the proxoin fabrics. The covering of the dirigible’s fabric will he fireproof and walornrool. The siiil> will 101 l feet long and o ■ fee! in diameter. It is claimed it will he durable and permanent, beyond any similar structure so far attempted.