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Hokitika Guardian, 9 April 1931, Page 5

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revolt by hens HOME GRAIN UNWANTED. BERLIN, March 24. There are 88,000.001) hens in Germany in a sorry plight owing to the Government’s tariff experiments in the direction of a higher duty on imported wheat, maize, and barley. Human beings and hens, ju order to help German rye growers, were to he compelled to eat the local grain, but although the human beings compiled the hens revolted, moulted, and grew thin.

Their Danish rivals soon outstripped them in egg production, thereby placing tlie home market under a foreign yoke. Poultry farmers arc now urgently petitioning the Government to modify ilie duties, even though it incense the rye growers, who are a powerful political body in Prussia. NO WORD SENT. N.S.W. A GFXCY-GENER AL. LONDON, March 27. The New South Wales Government apparently continues to ignore the Agency-General, officials of which were greatly surprised to read the cabled reports of Air Willis’ farewell speech prior to his departure to relieve Sit' George Fuller in London. “We thought that he was already on the water,” said one official. Sir George Fuller is still To receive a cable which will enable him to leave for Australia on April 17. CANADA AND EMPIRE. FRENCHMAN'S DEODARATTON. OTTAWA. March 2-7. “The salvation of this country is in the British Empire” declared the deputy-Speii ki»r. AT. Lnvergue. a Frenchman, in the Canadian House of Common’s. He denounced Soviet Rusrinn. and exnlained that he left the Liberal party because Sir Wilfred Laurier allowed European immigrants to come and swamp Erenoh-Canadiaus.

WENOEL will. MILLIONS TO HOSPTAL. NEW YORK. March 24 Five million pounds out of fthrt famous AYendcl estate is to go to the Flower Hospital, New York City, if the will is unbroken by contestants’ claims. A number of years ago Miss Wenclel had a dog on a leash. When the animals leg was broken she earned it into the Flower Hospital, where the surgeon set the fracture . She never forgot the favour, giving substantial donations each year, and leaving the institution £6,060,000 in her wdh

Evidence is available that John Gottloih Vended, once guardian of the ua<t, ooo,ooo Vcmif-1 estate, who mlud his sisters with un iron lining marritvil Hannah Holt, buck in 1853. Two grandchildren, Edna, aged 2-1, and Toddy, age 21, who live on a farm near Boston, now claim the Mendel millions. CRIM WARNING ACAINST TYING MANIA. LONDON. March 24. Grim warning to schoolmasters to check instantly any habit among their charges of tying themselves up, is issued by the "British Medical Journal.” The tragic: end of Francis Ellis, tho umlergradua'te, who was found bound gagged, and dead in room 13 at Svd-ney-Sussex College. Cambridge, is instanced as the possible end ol such apparently harmless youthful habits. Dr William Brown Wilde, Header of Mental Philosophy at Oxford l niversity. writing in th t > "Journal.” describes the case oil’ a man who recently came under his treatment, and who frankly confessed that lie was unable to resist the impulse to tie himself up. The mania grew until the desire came over him to tie himself up so tightly 'that he would be practically helpless. Dr Wilde concludes that if the patient had received proper treatment ns a youth lie would have been saved years of severe mental torkure. Cunosly enuogh. however, the case was not an isolated one. and so tho doctor’s advice to masters.