MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 16 April 1925, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION RADIO DISCOVERY. LONDON, April 14. The “ Daily Express’s” Paris correspondent states:—A French amateur has discovered that it is possible to send two short wave messages simultaneously oil the same aerial. .Messages on tt nitv-live metre wave ami a ninety metre wave were received in America perfectly. EXCHANGE RATES. LONDON, April 15 Latest exchange on the .£ are:— Brussels, 1)5 0.5 francs; Paris 03 0.5 francs; Stockholm 17.75 kronen, Oslo 298!) kronen ; Copenhagen 20 0.2 kronen, Berlin 2008; Rome 110;J- lire; Calcutta 17.1 5-10 pence to the rupee ; Kokohama, 21 yen to the £1; Hongkong 27) yen, Montreal 4783 cents, New York 478)- cents; Amsterdam 1 IDS” ; Batavia 12. SEN RIVALRY. LONDON, April 14. At the annual conference of the National Association of School Masters there was passed a .resolution pledging its full financial support to any member of the Association who suffered through refusing to submit to the inspection by a woman inspector of the physical instruction of the boys in his charge. Another resolution was also passed that every hoy of over seven years should conic under the predominating inlhtence- of a man teacher.

EVIDENCE AT INQUEST. LONDON, April 14. An inquest has been opened concerning the death of Grace Blackalller. The youth Rhodes, at present charged with murder, wept as the details ol the tragedy were unfolded.

The police gave evidence that the girl had declined to divulge the name of Iter assailant, saying:—“l don’t want any inquiry to he made.”

The foreman of the jury raised the question of whether the girl’s liie eoulti have been saved if she had been attended medically earlier because 35 minutes elapsed after she had called her mother till she was seen by a doctor. The Government Pathologist, Dr Bruno, said that if the bleeding had been stopped when she received the wound, the presumption was that she would have lived.

The Coroner pointed out that the girl’s mother was staggered by tlie scene and she had applied a towel, and she did all she could.

The inquest was adjourned

A FATAL ENIHXt

WELLINGTON. April 10

Mrs Margaret I’earson, 55, a widow who was knocked down by a taxi on April !>lh.. died in the hospital. It was stated at the time of the accident that she was suffering from pneumonia and the shock apparently brought on heart trouble.