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Under the above beading the following p pears in the Brisbane Courier of January 8th -The residenta at Suva are greatly amused
at a remarkable roits face on the part of his
Excellency Governor
On the
to
advice of Treasurer, ង
of affairs, the whole partly in charge of reduce the vote for telephones by £230 which would mean that the exchange would
be closed from 11.30 pun 6 A.DI.
was at once a great uproar, and the elected mambers at once put up a strong would They pointed out that such a proposal Read injured way, on the walls by being unable people would run great risk
t in touch with a the Governor lowe
And
Under
prokuro
that is that official members
opened to vote s Wore
out regard to the Governo
wished with
private wish.
But the members were given a hint, and the "oduction was
Breed
peara that Lady Rodwell, who is a lady
to the majority being purely official The "Press" furious, aid it was decided to at once cal
monster meeting in protest. fan conced itemsembled. Legislative Council reassembled. It
Was
the
the
p
of
of strong mind, and he is given credit
being the power behind
beard of the proposal only after
mution had been carried, and there was quite an interesting scene at the Vice- home Shortly after opening, the Or Agreed to the Bill Being mitted, and gave as his son, for colte face, amid general laughter that his. views had changed on the subject, an after the vote yesterday I found myself in serious domestic trouble" So the service was re-established.
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The stranger continued his entry like. walk, and the porter told the manager what he had learned. Some minutes later this notice appeared on the screens
ATTENTION.
"To the married lady sitting in this auditorium. with a friend, Your husband. «
is waiting outside with a revolver: In
your own interest and in the interest of this theatre you are kindly requested to
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leave the place quickly as soon as the lights TESTS OF MENTAL CAPACITY. Fire out. The second side, entrance to the left has been opened for the purpose.
SINAGEMENT!”-
Darkness once more reigned, the or chestra: struck up a time, and the film continued to tell its story to crowded shouse.
When the lights were turned up, again transformation had occurred, for whole. Tows of seats were empty, and in the boxes there remained only a few old men and women!
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Meanwhile two small, but distinctly guccessful, experiments upon the applic. ability of group-testing with persons of T An ex-brigado-major who is working in the co-operation of the headmasters of supernormal ability have been made with Covent Garden from 4 am to 5.30 pm for important public schools. Bimilar tests £2. 10s. a week was found by a Londonare being applied as a means of estimat Evening Newt representative recently. He
universities.
was busy as an amistant in the foliage de ing suitability for vocations at one of the partment of asara. George Monro, Ltd fruiterers and florists, of Tavistock-street, Covent Garden Trex-brigade-major in
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The object is to determine what is popularly spoken of the line of least re now recognised that the
in London when war broke out, sistance is probably the line of suropees having just returned from India, and be both in education and, in work. Mental joined up as a private in the 24th London capacity, as the tests show, is a composite
Palestine he *returned commistion, and after further service in after the manner of white light in which India was demobilized early in 1921 and came the colours of the spectroscops are blond- home to England.
several months," he said, "I tried mind is likely to dominate, wit ed. One of these colours" in any given to get work. In July, 1981, just before the domination must necesarily give direc Irish truce, I joined the Auxiliary Poling to the mental outlook pada petani kama Foree-and went to Ireland, returning to
(the Queen Begt. At home to take a quality made up of several parte rather
For
in January last year.
in I
With
searched
ched for work, but had no in my pocket. I set toph under
Manifestly if a boy is trained in i man
er which gives his dominant!! colour" full play, he will achieve more than a boy whose education runs counter to his
and night,
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out to tramp to
my
ately, it was summer.
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example, is likely to eam for its posses
me a free meal, but I would not take it the present examination method, doubt Inless he let me
his pigstyo And it. So I worked in is well suited to candidates o quali
mowed some hay for three
or four days, receiving food in return.
fied. But it is unlikely to reveal an
I continued my fourney, and reached original, constructive mind. Here, per- Torquay
wecke after leaving London. hapa, lies the explanation of the success There was no work there so I walked often achieved in after life by the back, getting to 3.0m
London
at three one morn three weeks before Christmas!
ing, walked straight to Covent Garden,
and, after explaining the position,
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