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Hokitika Guardian, 26 April 1932, Page 8

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HIS NECK BROKEN.

LONDON, March 13

Mr C. S. Wright, who lias died at Nottingham, aged eighty, ome brok Ills neck, and did not know about it for twenty-five years.

He was the oldest member of the South Notts Hunt. He bad a serious accident while hunting in 19 '2(>, and X-jray revealed that an accident twenty-five years earlier had broken his nee a. The fracture had not affected the spine, however, and the hones had knit together, so that he had been able to continue hunting. CHEAP HAIR CUT. LONDON, March 13. Somewhere in London is a well-dressed well-manicured, elegantly shampooed, face-massaged middle-aged man. Many peop’e would like to meet him. He walked into the hairdressing department of a Immloii store. He was accompanied h v a youth He ordered the most .skilled attendance in the shop, and chatted to a retinue ol liaircutters, shavers manicurists, masseurs, and shampoo exports who ministered to Ihis needs. His toilet completed, he invited (he experts to exercise their art upon bis on. As ibis was expected to take some 'time he decided to visit the cigar department and replenish Ids stock. Time passed, and the boy’s locks wen* shorn. Father did not return. 'The manager remarked to the bov on his lather’s prolonged absence. ‘That's not my father." said the bov. •'I met Itiin outside, and he offered to pay for my haircut. I have never seen him before."