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Hokitika Guardian, 20 June 1933, Page 6

LATE LOCALS

The usual fortnightly euchre takes place at Three Mile Hall on Wednesday evening at 8 o’clock. Prizes, order for grocerie-s-Hst., 12*;; 2nd., 8s; 3rd ~ ss. There will also be a- lucky tab!.? with four substantial prizes. The committee will have the hall electrically heated. Admission Is.—Advt.

Automatically operated doors which are expected to add materially to the comfort of the firemen as well as ti> facilitate their work are being added, to the new K class,s engines by the Railway Department Mr H. H. Sterling, chairman of the Railways Board, said that the engines were giving every satisfaction.

Speaking of the infallibility of fingerprint evidence as a means of: detection of crime, Mr W. R. Lagcelles stated in -nristchurch that one anthropologist, interested in this phase of science, in 1856 took his own palm prints. In 1897 he took his prints again and found no alteration in the lines after 41 years. Even if a person’dost the tip of his finger, the new tip, so far as it grows, develops the same pattern. Brothers, especially twins, were known to have fingerprints with some resemblance.

Safety first! Remedy colds promptly and efficiently—they might develop into nore serious chest and lung complaints. Use Linseed Emulsion. Breaks up the worst cough or cold. Sold everywhere Is fid, 2s fid and 4s fid—Advt.

The death occurred at Lewisham Hospital, Christchurch, on Friday, ol Slater Mary Joseph, a member of the community of the Sisters of Mercy at Westport. She had been ailing for two years, and was a native of New South Wales, having come to New Zealand in 1920 to join the Westport convent. For two years she taught n St. Canice’s School, but from that time gave herself up to attending to t inmates of the O’Connor Home, in Westport. •’ )

Hero’s a .■•■medy Bn* corgis . an 1 colds you'll “swear by.’’ Na/.cl, gives prompt relief been -n-e it te’entifically treats such aitentts at li.o points of inirction. It’s cconomi-al too—l2o doses for 2s r r. (50 dcsc's for Is fid.—Advt '■ " ‘ .