PRIZE BOUNTY.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 237, 22 December 1916, Page 1 (Supplement)

PRIZE BOUNTY.

THE ADMIRAL S SHARE. Many people have been, a little astonished at the fact that, while tain Max K. Horton received £159 9s Bd, in prize money for the sinking of tb3 Hela and S 126, some of the crew of the Cleopatra only received 3s 3d for the sinking of G 194. difference is not dae to an unfair distribution of the money, but to the fact that in the case of Captain Horton's shipsubmarine E9 —there were only about twenty people to sharo £1,400, while in the case of. the Cleopatra there were at least three hundred to share £46?. This is the more clearly shown wheni it is pointed out that able seamen in E9 received £26 5s each, whereas able seamen of the Cleopatra only received 16s 4d eath. Prizo bounty is divided up among officers and men of the Navy in a strictly regulated fashion. Boys receive one share each, able seamen receive five, warrant officers receive twelve, lieutenants twenty, and thus up the scale to certain captains, who receive eighty, thirtieth of the total sum due is deducted for thv admiral's share if an admiral is entitled to bounty by the fact that he was present at the destruction of the enemy ships.

OUR BLOOD CANNOT RUN COLD. WHY FEAR TURNS US HOT AND COLD. The temperature of human blood i« about 9Sdog. Fahr., and in healthy persons varies very' little. If your blood heat is very much below the normal something serious is wrong with vour health. A very hot or an extra cold day affects the temperature of the blood verv little. That part of the skin where the sensations of heat or cold are located reflects the temperature of the surroundings, according to the habits of different individuals. So that Arctic explorers would feel the heat of a stokehold terriblv, while a stoker would be unable to bear exposure to wind and snow. When vou are afraid you become feverish.' The blood rushes to the surface of the -kin giving off a great deal o l ' heat. Then you say your blood '• runs cold." The "glow of warmth felt by those who drink not wisely but too well, who believe thev are hot, is a dangerous sitrn. for it'shows that the blood heat must be below normal.