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• BLONDES IMMUNE. TRIALS OF SEASICKNESS, m vmm *wa _ , . ' r LONDON, July 25. Retiring after 5u years’ service as a ship's isurgeon, Dr Beaumont, chief surgeon of the ’White Star liner Majestic, says be does not know anything about seasickness, except the 1 fact that blondes escape it and brunettes are the worst sufferers. DUKE SELLS TOWN, WORRY FOR LOCAL COUNCIL. LONDON, July 24, The Duke of Norfolk has sold almost the entire town of Littlehampton, near Bognor, because of excessive taxation. The Council, alarmed at the prospect ol losing control of the foreshore and common, the town’s ch ef holiday attractions, hurriedly interviewed the Duke at Arundel Castle, in an endeavour to secure the rights of the common, the lease of which is held until 1934. The Duke of Norfolk, who is years of age, owns about 50,000 acres. GAOL AT LAST. FORMER MINISTER’S SENTENCE. SANTE FE (New Mexico), July 24. Albert Fall, former United States Secretary for the Interior, has become “Convict No. 6991.” in the Now Mexico Penitentiary. At the age of 70 he has started to serve a sentence of one year’s imprisonment for having accepted bribes in connec'ion with the granting of oil leases. It is eight years since his conviction, but the efforts of his lawyers have kept him out of gaol until now.
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Hokitika Guardian, 5 August 1931, Page 2
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