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Marlborough Express, Volume LX, Issue 232, 1 October 1926, Page 3

A CEMENT PROPOSITiON WITH EXCELLENT ADVANTAGES The promoters of tlio British Standard Portland Oement Ldmited are confident- tluit the output of the new worlcs at Whangarei will be readilv ahsorbad by the rapidly inereasing demand for oement. Tliey also claim that the new C'ompany. will possess unrivalled facilitation in the follovving respects : — (1). The Oement Hill Site commands two eardinal advantages not enjoyed by any other in this country; first, the natural cement rock will come in at the back of' the mill by gravitation, and secondly, the finished article will go out at the front direct by conveyors into ship. (2). It is claimed tliat more improvementsi have been made in cement manufaoturing machinery during the last four years, than were made during the preceding twelve years. The C'ompany is .securing an absolutely up-to-date plant (3). An ample supply of rich white limestone has been secured for use in case of need, but the promoters believe that such will not b© required, Irecause of tlie high oarbonate of lime content in the natural cement rock, viz., 77.73 per cent., vide the Dominion Analys't's Reporb. (4). Suitable coal is in amplo supply, and ea i be landed at tlie works at under 20s per ton. The fact that the promoting Syndicate in putting up £80,000 in cash out of £213,000 required, and is guaranteeing 4 per cent. per anniuu interest on tlie 133,000 shares offered to tlie publie, is ample evidence of their wliolcheartcd faith in the venture. Considerabl© care, time and money have been expended by competent conimercial rtien- in preparing this project. For this reason alone, the prospectus is wortby of respeetfnl consideration. C'opies can be obtained froin any meniber of the Stock E'xchange, from tlie National Ba.-ilc of New Zealand, from J. S. Thompson, local broker, or from the Interini Secretary, Box 542 . Well i mrton . — Advt.

" like my dead self " ERROR IN IDENTIFICATION. STRANGE SYDNEY CASE. The unique spectacle of a "dead." man walking into tlie Sydney morgue and protesting vigorously against liis death was provided in Sydney recently, due ko the .extraordinary likeness between a man killed OR a- railway line and one William Francis Wales. Early on Sunday morning the engine-driver of a train making for Hornsby, on the North Shore line, saw tbe body of a man lying near the rails, and oommunicated witli tlie Hornsby polioe wrhen he arrived there. The police recovered the body, wliich had been deca.pitated, ancl in one of tbe pockets of the clothing discovered a card bearing the name "J. Wales." .The constable wbo handied the case knew the Wales family, and he tclciphoned to Wales, sen., asking liiin to visit the morgue. Tlie latter, Ifroni the description .supplied by telephone, concliided that it was yliat of liis son Jim, wbo had heen nway from hom'e all the week-end. But' when he reached tbe morgue he discovered tliat such was not the case. Nevertheless, aftev a olose inspection, be idcntified tlie body as that of 1ns married son William Francis Wales, a fettler, of Cessnock, in tlie Newcastlo district, wbom be had not seen for months. Aooordinglv. tlie identifieation was published in tlie ncwspapcrs, and arrangements made for the funeial.^ Tlie sarno eveningj however, William Francis Wales walkod into tlie moroa]© and provcil satisl actor i l\ tliat" be was not dead. His father was overjoved, but puzzled tliat be should have made such a mistake. So tliev had anothcr look at tbe boidy, and even the son was struck by tlie extraordinary likeness between bimseff and tlie corpse. "He /was so Jike me in everv way tliat I tliought I was looking at my dead self," said AVales later. The jxilice subscqucntly secured the correct identifieation of tlie body from another source. »