GENERAL CARLES
Australian Press Assn.—United Service
SIR TRUBY KING
(Received this day at 11.15 n.m.) VANCOUVER, July 24.
Sir Truby King addressed the Candian Club prior to sailing with his daughter for New Zealand in the Niagara to-morrow. He urged Canada to adopt the Plunket system of education for mothers in the care of children. He created a fine impression.
A MOVING MOUNTAIN.
[“Th» Times” Service.]
(Received this dav at 12.25 n.m.V LONDON, July 24
The “Times” Geneva correspondent states the authorities have ordered the immediate evacuation x>f several villages in Taglio Valley whither mountain, Motto Albino, five niilesi from Bellinzona, 3GOO feet high, is slowly sliding. The mountain’s unstable composition was known in 1888, but the. movement was only recorded in 1925, when it was noted that sighals at the top had moved twenty inches since 1919. The mountain covers one and a quarter miles and measures 560,000.900 cubic feet. •The summit has moved sixty-nine inches and subsided eighty-two inches in thirty-six years. Tt is now sliding much faster in the same place equal to six yards per year with a tendency to increase.
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Hokitika Guardian, 25 July 1928, Page 3
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