MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 15 June 1926, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

STOLEN JEWELS. LONDON, April 26. The announcement that the police had discovered a store of stolen plate and jewellery in a house at Islington N.. brought several hundred people to Scotland Yard yesterday in the hope of recovering property lost by some of them many years ago. .Most of the callers were women, one of whom brought *i list of two foolscap pages long of articles she had missed during ■ thirty years. Another woman searched for a silver cigarette case which had belonged to her soldier son, who sent it to her from France a few days before he died in action. She' believes it was stolen from her in Liverpool, and she has kept in touch with the police all over the country in the hope of recovering

At one time yesterday so many people called to inspect the stock of gold, silver, and jewelled articles that they had to be formed in a queue outside.

WOMEN’S LEAGUE. [Australia & N.Z. Cable Assocntion. (Received this day at 10.15 a.m.) LONDON, June 14. The newspaper “Sketch” states that in the hope of checking effectively the aggressive feminism in the new women’s. movement, a League of Womanhood -has been formed to oppose the epicene creed, believing that the feminist movement as a purely anti-masculine body is utterly alien to the average woman’s aims and desires. The League is seeking the appointment of a Royal Commission to enquire into the extent to which employment of women upon jobs formerly held by men as aggravating the present unemployment. It regards the duties of marriage and motherhood as woman’s highest walk in life. LONDON, June 14. At Douglas. Tsle of Man, the Junior Tourist Motor Trophy race, seven laps, aggregating 2P4 miles, was won by Adear "Bennett? ‘at an -average of 67 miles an hour.