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Hokitika Guardian, 29 August 1925, Page 4

OPERATION ON A SWAN. LONDON, .1 iiuo I)r. ( liarles Milligan, of l.igoniel. Eellasr, ha-. successfully operated oil a swan which last week dashed into a tree at Holvoir Park. Belfast, and fractured its left wine. The swan was placed under chloroform and the wine amputated, nine stitches 1 iciun put in and the arteries hound up. Tt recovered with remarhahle s|>eod hemp able to move round the lurpc enclosure within a few minutes. Dr. .Milligan .-aid the swan seemed t.) understand that they wished to relieve | its pain. Had the wing not hoen amputated the swan would have died. SANDALS FOR SHOPPERS. TO 1C 10, June 1. The prospectus has just been issued of a new departmental store to open on Tokio’s Ginza, its main shopping street, ant! in the list of estimated expenses appears an item of six thousand yon a month for grass sandals. No Japanese would think of walking upon a carpeted or mat-covered floor with his ordinary footwear. If he is wearing shoes he exitects to find a pair of cloth slippers, hig enough to go on over his shoes, waiting for him at the door. If he is wearing Japanese clogs he expects to slip out of these at the door and he handed a pair of light sandals, while his clogs are carefully checked and kept for his return to the street. Ordinary grass sandals will stand one week of such wear by shoppers, and it is estimated that every month -0.000 pairs will have to he renewed. On bargain days in Japan the method is for the quickest or stoutest woman of a group to claw her way to , the bargains, gather as hig an armful i as she can carry and then fight her j way out to some quieter corner of the 1 store. Here she and her friends 1 squat around the goods and make c careful and deliberate selections. I ,