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Hokitika Guardian, 27 June 1931, Page 6

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RUBBISH IN FOOD. STARTLING FRENCH REPORT. LONDON, June 11. Only 48 good sausages among 133 nearly one-third of the so-called “mineral waters” plain water from the tap. The tradition of excellence attaching to French catering lias received a shattering blow by the report of the Food Control Commission, which exhaustively examined Paris’ food supplies. The commission discovered that the largest proportion of the food and drink in Paris is often definitely of bad quality, reports the Paris correspondent of the “Manchester Guardian.” Of 2555 milk samples tested, 644 were bad, and only 947 definitely good. Of 194 samples of butter 74 were bad. Though France prides herself on her wines, only 185 samples were good. Of the other 328 some were more or less artificial concoctions. "The proportion of bad spirits wa s even higher. Altogether the commission Hound throughout the foodstuffs which it examined an average of 52 per cent, deficiency.

DISINHERITED WIFE. MAN’S EXCESSIVE FREEDOM. LONDON; June 12. Miss Eleanor Rathbone, M.P., told the Gray’s Inn Debating Society that it was imperative to limit man’s freedom to disinherit his surviving spouse. She said that women were the greater sufferers by unhappy (marriages, oi which she estimated that, there were 140,000 English-women victims, and that the number was increasing by 14,000 a year.

MAHARAJAH’S VIEWS. FEDERATION IN INDIA. CALCUTTA, June 12. There have been rumours for some time that a number of Indian States under the influence of the Maharajah of Patiala, has been organising a revolt against the Federal .scheme proposed at the Indian Round Table Conference. It is even suggested that there has been a. reversal of the attitude taken up by the ruler of Patiala when he was in London last winter. The Maharajah and his colleagues hold quit© definitely that federation would conflict with the interests of the States, and that, in whatever form the scheme is proposed to be worked there is sure to be an inlfingement of the independence of the Indian States.

GETS TICKET AT 80. NEW RECORD FOR THE AIR, LONDON, June 12. The retired 80-year-old, Captain J. W. C. Martyn, has established an aviation record, according to. Admiral Sir Herbert King-Hall, in a letter to Times,” by taking out flyiii g license) after three months’ easy-going training. Admiral King-Hall' states that Captain Martyn, whom he first met while commanding an Australian trooptransport during the Boer War, took up flying' as a hobby and found it easier to pilot an aeroplane than a ship. AMERICAN CITIZEN. < MRS KEITH MILLER’S PLANS. NEW YORK, June 11. Mrs Keith Miller, the Australian air- woman, has decided to take out naturalisation papers as a first step towards becoming a United States citizen. She hopes to follow up a LondonAustrnlia flight with a trans-Atlantic flight soon. “I want,” she says, “to become an American because I really want to get to some place before. I die.” Britain, she declares, offers less opportunity to women, forcing them-to do /fibre housekeeping and less flying' than she can do in the United States. On the transAtlantic flight she will take no pilot, but a navigator."

DARING ESCAPE. I FOREIGN LEGION DESERTER. LONDON, June 11. Conditions in tlie Erench Foreign Legion prompted Samuel Mackay, of Glasgow;, to stow away, without food or water, for seven days on the voyage to Aberdeen, aboard the steamer Uskside, from Sfax, Tunis. - Mackay was unable to find work in London. He and a companion joined the Legion fit Dunkirk, and here drafted to Sidi-Bel-Ab-bes, Algeria. There, he found that the Legion did not. fulfil expectations. He escaped to the coast, but was recaptured by an Arab and imprisoned. He escaped again . after cavfalry manoeuvres on the border of Tripoli, and reached the coast after many privations. He hid among the coal in the Uskside’s bunkers, and he escaped the legionaries’ repeated searches when the steamer called at Susa, Two German stowaways surrendered just as the holds were closed. Mackay crawled out when the steamer was at sea, being unable to stand. He was ill the whole week. '■

THE NEXT WORLD. LONDON, June 12. The next revolutionary • scientific event will be the discovery of another world, according to tlie famous scientist and spiritualist, Sir Oliver Lodge. “It will be a spiritual world,” he says, “interacting with the material world. The discovery will be made that man is not the highest being. The world will end some day; nevertheless, the human race has a long time to go. Civilisation is in its infancy; its mistakes ate those of youth.”

’ NAVAL ECONOMIES. NEW AMERICAN ORDERS. WASHINGTON, June 13. President Hoover ’ has ordered the abandonment of the -t-s naval base at Guam, on the ground of economy. Mr Hoover said that recent study had convinced the naval experts that the island was no longer of' military value. Other economies by the .Navy Department this year will save the countiy £5,000,000. UNUSUAL TRAGEDY. PIPE KILLS WOMAN. NEW, YORK, June 13. Well diggers at Quincy, Illinois, set off a dynamite blast of 1001 b and a section of their drilling pipe went sailing away across the town. It fell on and crushed a motor car in which Mr and -Mrs Bozarth were riding home after attending the joyous celebration of their golden wedding anniversary. The pipe decapitated the wife but only slightly injured her husband.

UNEARNED PRIZES. * CURSES, SAYS PRIME MINISTER. ' “Make sure first that you have- gone through the hard work and self-discipline which make prizes worth winning," said the Prime Minister, Mr Ramsay MacDonald, addressing schoolchildren -at Southwark. ' “People sometimes get prizes without • winning them. The person who gets '£30,000 without winning it is cursed more than blessed by the posesssion,”