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Hokitika Guardian, 25 September 1925, Page 4

NEWS BY MAIL.

A ( AXCFLLFD WFhDIXC. LONDON, August 7. A prospective bride and bridegrn: in have disappeared from Christchurch. Hampshire, on the eve of their wedding. They are .Miss Violet Hutchings, who has been slaying in the neighbourhood lor the past 7 necks, and Brivale Sydney Fonder, R.A.AI.C., stationed at Chrislohurrh Barracks. They were to have been married lasi Tuesday. All arrangements had Icon made for the ooieiooiu at Bortsmouth Register Ollier, but they did not arrive. The wedding cake remained untouched at a local confectioner's shop. It is now learned that Private Fender had camelled his marriage leave at the barracks and sent In a local taxicab-driver who was to lung* taken the party to the register oilier, a letter cancelling t he engagement. The girl. Violet llitchings. is aged about XL and was employed as a domestic servant at lligbeldlc, liu.'u* C’brisiebureli. Private Fender, whose parents live at Swansea, is also about 23. The last seen of the couple was on Friday night at f hrisi elnireh Railway Station. Fender explained to a friend that he was going home to Swansea, hill shortly afterwards the couple vanished .

DOCTORS Aft FT I Ar ACTORS. LOXDO.Y. .Anu. IT. Poolfirs and nurses rf 1 1■ Rermomlsoy Health Peparlment find i '<« ladder ol' their i>! 1 1 i<■ 111 s Inm the c.'isln lor ,‘i series of ,dealt !i films produced ill the (loparl motif 's own studio, under the dirott puidame of T)r. R. King lirown, the niodieal officer of Tir-.'ilill, for free ("ihihil ion in the borough. Dr. I>. AT. Connaii, who :tets ax prndileer. photographer, and writer of ■suli-l :tlns lor I lie hints, said in a ropnrler yesterday; " I lie til ms are shown sonietimes from our own lnotnr-vaii in the streets and sometimes indoors. We exported audiences of about ltn ill the streets, leal iieiuallv ',i e sonieiimes pet -100 and oOQ. We hare finished films on tiiheretilosis. miltoniitv. ami child wolfaro (“Tile Day ill Ihe Idle of a Ruby"), and shall soon finish one on pure food supply. .Vest, year we shall prohaldy 1 aekle lir-i the subject- of infert i-ns ili-oasos in the home. We do eveivtliinp ourselves evo'iii the d-velop!up. One instance alone shows the mine of the work. When we bcpau. only one dairyman in the borough ])rovnled ( dfade -A" t nhoretilin-tostocl milk, and there were 1 four families eoiiMirninp it. Now .‘to dairie-- supple i: to IW-'i families.

RAXDITst RAID DICK pI.AYKRs. X KAY YORK. A up. ft. A (piiel residential district ot Xew York was thrown into turmoil earlv (■his morning. wlaoi the police enpnpod in a rnnniiip pistol duel with three bandits which ended in the death of ono hamlit and the critical wounding ot two others and one puieeman. The bandits encountered the police as they were leavinp the flat where t-lvey had held up ,ii men engaged in dire panics. Players absorbed in tile panic suddenly found themselves (overed by sj x pistols held hv three masked bandits

ivlio ordered them to line up against the we.ll. The vietim.i wore 1 ext t adored to discard their coats and trousers and t'lnnv then! into a pile in the centre of the room. While the bandits were i‘!ie;iod ill slink in a; money, watcher. and nondescript articles Irom pockets, one man. chid in underwear, succeeded in slipping out of the door and liuve the alarm.