NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS

Hokitika Guardian, 20 December 1928, Page 8

NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS

A JOB FOR TilK RADIO. I'l a itiiin is capable of viny; \v:isto I»:i[XT oil tlic j>Mljli(• footways lie is ignorant •iiml i:iit-tliifsitfcl itiul n pestilent e. I would like to see broadcasting most extensively used in cdueution of Unit genera I type.”—Sir John Keith, m;i director of ihe British Broadcasting ('nni]>:»ily. A BBC BY NOVELTY. A tip for looth:ilI i’;ms tluil should help Ihe home team eonsiderahly is contained in n story ol ;i i , ’rmieh Rugby player. During a hotly contested game iin opposition player liooteil the oval high and sure. Only two minutes to play and a mini inevitable when ci'itck! Someone in the grandstand had drawn his automatie and planted a bullet in the hall—and pool! i lie hall never readied the goal posts. WORLD'S QUIETEST SPOT. A silence nearer absolute than that (it Ihe uninhabited mountain peaks ol Arctic wastes has been obtained in a room at the ITiiverstiv of rtreoht, in I lolh nil. li is the world’s most soundproof room, and was designed to h‘st the behaviour of human ears -in experiments that would be ruined by the slightest aeeidental noise. It is built like a thermos hottle. for it is a room within a room. The air has been pumped out of the space between its double wills to form a. vacuum, while ihe w lls tlmmsel ves are made oi alternate layers c! lead. wool, and Telt. FOB IXDNRENDENC'E. “ f most earnestly trust that the folly from whirl/ the present mischir! has sprung will not result in the discs: ah'mil men tofl ho ( bur: h. Bui I am hound to make it perlectlv plain ill:, I, T 1 were a Bisluip. 1 would a thou-aud times rather see the Church di-i-stnbiishnl than find mysidf cem|ndled to coerce and Dully a sitliordinai-> Heri'vman for doing that wlthTi I believed to he right : and which I to hi the whole world, including him v-elf. that I believed to bo right. l.ord Birkenliead. in the “ limes > l.olldeu'i. DISCOVERY. Cv .hanging a sugar which is not ,] i;;'e!-t;hie ini.u a horeielore useless m id and showing that the latter is cowl for human cou-umpiion and various industrial purposes, chemists ol the bureau ol' standards have been aide in the last IVw months to convert two ol agriculture's waste products into potentially valuable articles ol common o, 'this work has been done by Dr S. i‘. Acreo and co-workers, id the bureau stall’ under the supervision ol W • EKm ley, chief of l lie division of organic and fibrous materials as part ol a special programme for the discovery of means of utilisation ol Ir.rni wastes provided for with a CIO.HUO appropriation by Congress two years ago. HUGE NAVAL I'IfTTKK. A. panorama of the Battle (d Iraia! gar, which thrilled London, when L was on view at Earl’s ( uni t in lht"), has been revealed stored away m a, German warehouse. I lie wors was a painting by the German artist, Professor Phillip Fleischer, for the London Naval Centenary Exhibition, and tooltwo years to complete. The. artist -pent'several months on Nelson's \ nl.nrv making studies tor the v.oik. Alter the exhibition the panorama, winch weighs three tons, made a European tour, but at the outbreak of the war it was consigned to a Wiesbaden warehouse. The painter’s family now 0i1'..,- ii lor sale "at a very moderate price ” to save it from destruction. II AIR-WAY INC ICSTS. "Women who are plain and wish to be beautiful, women who are beautiful and v.i,<h to remain so, and men who are merely curious all found something of interest at the Hairdressing Fair of Fashion at the White City. Shepherd’s Bush London. A style of hairdressing which was devised only rocecntly was shown, it is for the woman who is just growing her hair alter a shingle The growth in popularity of permanent voting can he gathered from the statement that in 1907 approximately TOO

.'.muon wanted ilie ti'oiil iuo.nl ami that last year there wore IS.OO'J.OI'O. I lioy spoilt, about £IS.OilO.lK)!) i<>n it. A ROBOT (5 EX. “Mr. Robot.” man’s new friend, colored fresh fields of activity when he appeared in the form of an nnti-air-■ralt cun at war demonstrations staged bv the Army Ordinance \>.~<-ii:ttiou in Maryland. Amereia. Ibis bin gun. nicknamed "Mr Robot ' by the officers, ■eompiited and held its own ranee and found the altitude' of an aproaching aeroplane by means of sound waves, it was mounted on a moving truck, and is expetced to prove a most effective weapon against aircralt. An aeroplane, invisible to the naked eye. towed a rod-sl-'eve target. and shells from the gun registered theoretical bits as they 0x,,1,,.P\! at snots harzard- us to tin; enemy craft. GIRLS ROBY IX l IU’XK. .1 |,. s t before tbe steamer Massilia left Santos, from Rio de dnniero. a man came on board v. ith a la rye tiunk. wliieli he consigned to an address in Bordeaux. Becoming suspicious ns- to the contents of the trunk, the crew prised open the lid. Inside was the mutilated body of a young woman. Inquiries were begun by the police at Sao Paolo, with the result that an Kalin,, has been arrested, and has confessed to being the author of the crime.

BIRDS IX “MATCH-BOXES.” An R.S.i’.C.A. inspector stated at Ongar Police Court that his society and the Association of Bird Catchers had combined to stop cruelty to birds caused through keeping them in cages too small to allow them to stretch the r wings. A minimum siz/c for cages had been agreed upon. In the ease before the bench some elm flinches used as demy birds wore said to have teen loiind in cages “little bigger than matchboxes.” BRITISH DEATH LIST IN WAR. The number of death casualties sustained by the British Empire during the war was 1.019.88-, says the 10:1b annual report of the Imperial War Graves Commission, distributed as lollow.s: I'nitcd Kingdom, 7Go,ldi; Indian Empire, (j2..'J27 ; Canada, .1(3,5K1; Australia, 09,.T-10; New Zealand. 10,729; South Africa, 7.150; Newfoundland. | and other British possessions. AO..TKL In France and Belgium 709.! 17 men lost their lives, while East Africa had the next hugest casualty list with ofi.oßo. In .Mesopotamia of),189 British soldiers were killed ; in the Dardanelles, 11.901: in Egypt and Palestine. 21.~ .Til; in .Macedonia. 10,70(1; Russia and other theatres of war, T0,0(39; Italy, 21(37; lost a I sea, 40.902; while in places not stated in the War Office returns 1.'!,295.