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(By Telegraph—Per Press Association.) UK AM Wl HE CKS.S. SYDNEY, Jan. 30. There L apparently little hope of minimising tile fading of the Australian baa in by recourse to alternate wave lengths, as in the case of India and South Africa. It is understood all .silt'll tests have been without result in Australia, though India always hears signals. It is 1 now suggested to utilise India for relaying and thus extent the period of communication with Australia,
•MOST TERRI BCE CALAMITY. IN ANNALS OF .MEDICAL SCIENCE BRISBANE, .Tan. 31. Doctor Tilling, attached to the Brisbane City Council, carrying out immunisation work, referring to the Bundaiberg tragedy, said he could not discuss the position, beyond stating that it was tile mo* astounding and terrible calamity that had ever occurred. so far as he know, in the annals of medical science. Ho could see nothing for it hut to subscribe to the view that some inexplicable change had taken place in I lie serum after it was used on the hi-rt occasion previous io the calamity. It was within the realm of possibility that the tremendous heat experienced for the last few days might have affected the serum. MELBOURNE. Jan. 31. Sir Neville Dowse states that, (lie Health Department is still mystified as to the cause of flic tragedy. It was still analysing the serum held in Melbourne, hut hud to wait until full reports came from Bundaberg. Sir Neville Howse added that he was determined to clear up the mystery. The Department would rather prove itself guilty of gross incompetence and utter carelessness, and find out what caused the deaths, than protect its own name and allow the mystery to go unsolved. G KRAI AN GAOL-BIRD. SYDNEY. Jan. 31. The Department has refused to allow a German aboard the (dimaroa to land, alleging that he was deported from New Zealand, where he had received a term of seven years’ gaol tor arson.
It is not yet decided whether he will he shinped hack io New Zealand or taken on to Germany.
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Hokitika Guardian, 1 February 1928, Page 1
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