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Hokitika Guardian, 20 March 1926, Page 4

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■—— UNMUSICAL JUDGE. LONDON, January 26. Lord Hetvart, the Lord Chief Justice, speaking on likes and dislikes of music at the annual dinner of the Federation of British Music Industries at the Savoy Hotel last night,, classed Air Justice Kvo and Dr Johnson as among the men of great distinction in the last two centuries who professed that they were indifferent to music.

Air Justice Eve (he said), either because, as he said, his hair was s:> short, or because, as others might think, Chancery actions were so long, avowed himself to bo no musician. Jo Air Justice Eve. if they were to judge by his speeches, music wu's less than a contingent reminder. (Laughter.) It was worse than ,'t common law nuisance, and he had no use for it. not even a shifting use. He suggested that Dr Johnson really had a very good ear for music, but was a little disappointed at his own performances. (Laughter. ■ Was the truth not the same about Air Justice i'.ve ?

Air J. 11. AlcKwan the principal of the Koval Academy of Music, declared that British music at the present time was in a more active and progressive condition than it ever had been. It was absolutely spontaneous and disinterested; During the evening a first performance was given of a new rhapsody for violin, violoncello and piano, specially written for the occasion by Alt' A ork Bowen. Air Justice Eve, in a case before him. once said : " It is the torture of the damned to me to hear children playing the piano. ! should like to drown them, but 1 cannot do that.”

BRITISH CONTRACTS. LONDON, January 20. A contract for a .£300,000 supergenerating station to Be built at liriiusdown. Aliddlesex. for the North .Metropolitan Electric Supply Company, has been placed with International Combustion, Ltd.. Africa House, Ivingsway. W.C. On Tuesday it was announced that the same firm, had a contract, worth approximately £250,000, for. the erection of part of the equipment of a new super-power station at Durban, South Africa. The station at Brimsdown will be the largest in the country using exclusively the pulverised coal system. The North Metropolitan Electric Supply Co., which supplies almost the whole of North London with electric power, will now lie aMe to extend its area.

The Durban contract will give work to 700 extra men for IS months at the International Combustion works at Barrow and Derby.

The building of one tiny prism of glass on another lias enabled the Holophane Company, of Bush House. W.C.. to win new contracts for the supply of 10.000 pieces to Santiago, in Chile, and 1,000 pieces to Buenos Aires.

Already no fewer than 298 cities in the [ uited States and 17 countries of the world are employing tliu prisms Onstreet lighting. Another contract valued at more than £17.000. lias just been secured Iron) the City of .Milwaukee. F.S.. and another from the Borough of Hackney, H., for 3,000 pieces.

This now scientific form of lighting can lie applied to street lamps, f'aetoris, end churches. The ligut can be diffused. l!irow 11 at any angle, or ref'eetcd in any one of a thousand tli,Terud ways, by flic arrangement of the prisms.

TO FIGHT CANCER. TORONTO, Jan. o.|

It L Milted here that Professor Stephen Leacock, the author and humourist. has determined to devote his fortune and his pen henceforth to the promotion ol a. strenuous campaign iwithe cure ami prevention of cancel-. If is understood that the British Society lor the Control of Cancer will be the medium through which Pml'essor Leacock will direct his efforts. Tib s society i- represented at Alc-Cill University, Al«.nt.real, where Professor Leacock is head ol the Department of Political Economy.

Professor Leacock's resolve is said to be due to the reeeul death in Knglaml of his wife, formerly Miss Beatrix Hamilton, to' Toronto, after the unsuccessful administration of Professor Blair Hell’s lead solution trealment for cancer.

The British organisation concerned with I Ik- light against cancer are the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, the National Society for tile Relief of Calmer, and tiie British Km pin? Cancer Campaign, which was started last year under the presidency of the Duke of York.

Officials of the British. Empire Can(■or Campaign believe [hat Professor Leacock's offer of assistance applies to the American Society for the Control of Cancer, a body whose aim itis to educate the public throughout the United States and Canada with regard to the nature, origin, diagnosis, and cure of rancor. An oflicial stated yesterday that Professor l.caeork’s example was a gi'cai help to the Campaign) in this country. Research is so promising (he said) that, we can do with every farthing to keep, the various hospitals and private experimenters at tlu-ir highest efficiency. We have many people, like Professor Leacock, who after the death, of a beloved relative devote themselves to collecting funds for the light against the dread disease. They cannot all do what .Professor Leacock is going to do. hut there are many eases like that of a nurse who, when she found she had incurable cancer, gave the rest of her life—up to the time she could not stir from her bed—to collecting money to save others.