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Hokitika Guardian, 20 July 1931, Page 5

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FIGHT IN CHURCH.

PROTESTS AGAINST VICAR.

LONDON, July 9,

A free fight, in which women took part, was the climax to a further disturbance at St. Michael’s Church, Lumh-in-Rossendale.

A,s soon as the vicar (Rev. Caleb) began the service, a very large body of protesters stood up and sang 12 hymns without stopping, until, Mr Caleb was compelled to declare the service closed. He led the choir through a hack door, where police were waiting. A fight immediately broke out in the vestibule, and women joined in jeering at the vicar as he left under police protection. Mr Caleb was absent from the evening service.

Four weeks ago the vicar had to call the police in to suppress an interruption of his service. Many of the congregation, who objected to his ritual, sang hymns. He went away for a fortnight, but his next service had to be abandoned.

STALIN’S POLICY,

STANDARDISING RUSSIA

LONDON, July 10,

The Moscow correspondent of the “Nows-C’hrcnucle 1 * states that the Sov* let’s change of front regarding wages and working eouditiots follows the sudden abandonment of Stalin’s earlier plan of spurring the people to. the highest activity on the pretence of an impending invasion. This tided over a critical period while the last yestges of individualism were being smashed, but would, if prolonged, be too costly in efficiency and moral. HUGE SEA MONSTER. DISCOVERY NEAR LIVERPOOL. LONDON, July 9. A sea monster 12ft. long and 7ft. in girth, with a shark’s tail and a whale’s head, has been washed ashore at Fleetwood, on the west coast of England, north of Liverpool. The remains of a giant fish were still gripped in the monster’s jaws. The scientists are puzzled.

BLIND SOLDIER'S END

DEATH IN BATHING POOL. VANCOUVER, July 10. Blinded in 1918, while fighting in France with the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, David Ironside came to Canada recently, only to meet a pathetically tragic death. Having crossed the Atlantic, he was met at Montreal by soldier organisations, who assisted him to cross the continent. The Old War Comrades gave him an official welcome to .Vancouver, The.,.-May or, Mr Taylor, took him to Seattle.for the Independence Day celebration, and ho remained there for a Scottish picnic,

While still in Seattle, David Trons'de wished to go swimming. After enjoying the sport, he wished to dive. Friends pdoted him to the diving-board, and gave him directions how to leap into 12ft ot water. As he' failed'to return to the surface,- his friends searched the bottom, and found his body an hour later, wedged under a houseboat. Ihe Seattle and Vancouver Scottish societies are conibining to give him a military funeral.

NEW ARCTIC TRIP.

BRITISH M.r.’S REQUEST

LONDON, July 10

Mr Leonard W. Matters, an Adelaide born Labour member of the House ot Commons, is seeking permission to join a Soviet-controlled expedition to the Kara Sea, in the Arctic Circle. A fleet of British, Russian, and Norwegian steamers will leave Newcastle-on-Tyne •ill August for the Yenisei River, which empties into the Kara Sea.

DEAF MOTORISTS

LICENSE GRANTED FUR BUS

LONDON, July 9

A motor car's vibration enables a deaf person to bear almost better than the ordinary driver, declared a deaf Birmingham ear specialist, supporting a deaf man’s application for a license to drive a public vehicle carrying 32 passengers. The (Magistrates, creating a precedent, granted the application on condition that the driver wove a special acoustic instrument.