LATE CABLE NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 14 March 1932, Page 8

LATE CABLE NEWS

STREET TRAGEDY. MOTHER'S AWFUL FIND. LONDON, March 3 A mother, child, a street accident—and Fate weaving one of its crullest dramas! Catherine Annereau, of Bethnal Green, saw a crowd in a street. A child was lying in the road, unrecognisable and ' covered with blood. She picked him up and . carried him to the hospital. On the way she told the driver of the car which knocked the child down that she had warned her own child against running into the read. “When 1 got .there,’ she sa.id, “I recognised tlie hoy as my own child,” The child was dolin Annereau, aged six, and at the inquest at Stepney the jury returned a verdiit of accidental death and exonerated the driver of the car.

NEW VITAMIN D. LONDON, March 3. The Medical Research Council’s annual report announces that, a team of investigators, under Dr. Boudillon, sueceeded in isolating a substance known as “calciferol,” which is believd to he vitamin D in a pure state. “Weight for weight,” says the report, “it has 400,000 times the value of a good sample of cod-liver oil in preventing and curing rickets. A single ounce of the inew substance, dissolved, could provide a necessary daily ration for the proper development, and growth of more than a million children.” The council’s chairman said that the isolation was so active that the substance was a men notable advance.