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Hokitika Guardian, 29 January 1932, Page 3

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FLOWER HUBERS

GOOD WORK IN BURMA

CALCUTTA, Jan. 19,

Absent from civilisation for 14 months travelling paths never previously trodden by white men, Mr Kingdom Ward, naturalist, accompanied by the Earl of Cranbrook, recently returned from Uppei Burma, and is now sailing homeward. The -expedition left London -in October, 1930, in .search of rare flora and fauna. In the■ ATps they suffered terrible hardships. They were entirely alone, as their coolie s refused to .accompany th> nt into the unknown. There were no big game, and they lived ' on mice and squirrels. Nevertheless, the expedition was a great success. The country proved to be a naturalist's paradise, with the meadows ablaze with rare Alpine dowers of every colour. Apart from au extraordinary collection of rare flowers and shrubs, the expedition returned with speirnens of small mammals, new to the naturalist. EASY MONEY. german coukterfkit; ng. BERLIN, Jan. 19.„ A sensation has been caused by the arrest of Dr .Cornell Salaba, a wellknown legal, and .scientific expert, and his wife on a. charge of coining and circulating .silver two-mark pieces. The couple lived irreproachably in the daytime in a handsome villanin a Berlin .suburb. At night they worked in a concrete-lined cellar, fitted with a complete coining plant, disposing of the false money ,by small purcllase s at stalls on the public markets, which they visited separately, shabbily dressed, afterwards meeting and driving off in' a luxurious motor car. WOMEN LAW BREAKERS. , IRISH REPUBLICAN'S. ,LONDON, Jan. 21. i“ This- ii.s not a Court at all. You take yours'elves too seriously, said Sheila Humphrise, with a. toss of hei head, when charged at Dublin with [Via,eve I’he lan and Kathleen Merrigan, with possessing documents relating to illegal organisations.,“ 1 refuse to recogsise your authority,” she declared. A detective described how they entered Humphries’ bedroom and found the .paper after she had overcome hei reluctance to dress herself and admit him. “You are awfully foolish to try to .suppress these organisations, '.ivtci(jected Humphries. “We thrive on suppression. ’This Court is only a spectacular comedy, anyhow.” Merrigan was acquitted. Humphries and Phelan .were sentenced to 29 days’ imprisonment from the date of their arrest—which meant 'immediate release. THE UNEMPLOYED. BRITAIN REALLY SLANDERED. LONDON, January 19. Britain’s “standing army,” of unemployed is only 103,000, according to the Ministry of Labour’s investigation of seven years of unemployment, eliding 1930 ,

l ‘ r fhe Times” urges that the picture need not he painted blacker than the reality. It is a slander on Britain's industrial position to represent her as being burdened with a deadweight o! 20 per cent permanently unemployable FEAR OF WITCHES. STRANGE BELIEFS STILL. LONDON, antiary 21. Belief in witches and ghosts still lingers 'in the more remote parts ot Britain, despite wireless, aeroplanes and other modern inventions. A witness at Wolverhampton Police Court refused to give (evidence on the ground that a woman in the case was a -witch and would put h:rn under a spell it he told what he had stem The Court laughed, but (inquiries show that thousands ot country people stoutly believe in witchcraft.

The secretary of the Folk Lore Society (Mr A. R. Wright) told the "Daily Mail” that old women, credited with witches’ powers, were found particularly in the rural districts of Devon, Cornwall, and Norfolk. 1 was -recently informed 'of the death of a Somersetshire witch ” he said. "When she was aware

that she was dying,, she sent lor her bowl of toads and called th-in by name. Each hopped out and promptly died, and then she died.” The latest ghost story comes from where a married couple, whose aunt committed suicide a week ago, have been haunted '.by -a ghost with a bugle. 'Mysterious bugle, notes, heard on the days of the aunt’s death, have since sounded nightly. Neighbours are sitting up with the terrified couple. AUSTRALIAN AIRMEN. GIVEN POST IN AMERICA. WASHINGTON, dan. 19. Contrasting with the unsuccessful efforts oT Kingsford Smith and Bert IHinkier to obtain employment in Australia. the United States War Departemn't has appointed another Australian airman, Harold Catty, who last dul\ flew round the world in record time, to be senior aerial navigation engineer at Dayton, Ohio. EVILS OF SEPARATION. DANGER OE "LIVING APART." LONDON, dan. 19. Over 2,000,000 married people are living apart in Great Britain. Sepalation orders amount to 2.0,000 yeaily. Over 4000 men were' imprisoned last year for non-payment of maintenance dues. The fistulas are given h.v Lord Snell, who emphasises the subtle inlluencCs • under mining 'British tamily Hie. “ The English home, of which we are always proudest, is in danger of breaking up,” he says. "We are doing nothing to stop the rot. Lord Snell urges I hat the only remedy is the ,establishment of courts ot domestic rebut ions similar to Americas.