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Franz Joseph II, ruling prince of tiny Liechtenstein, on enst- Country ern Swiss frontler, takes oath of allegiance at Vaduz. has population of,11,500. Lust member of its standing army died this year.
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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
July 12, 1939.
£2,000 'bargain' his last
EMPIRE NEWS
AUSTRALIAN POLICY
IN THE PACIFIC
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years
WILLIAM HENRY STEAD,-ninety-three-year-old mineowner, of Beech-road, Reigate (Surrey), was
a helpless cripple-yet he loved life so much that, when he was eighty-eight, he offered his nurse £2,000 if she enabled him to live another ten years-£200 for every year.
But there was a condition. In the strange bargain he struck with sixty-four-year-old Nurse
Prof. Stephen Roberts, of Sydney Marie Louise Shepperd, the University, in a lecture recommended woman who had looked after a gradually widening and overlap-him for forty years.)
:
"Just over a year ago, I believe he felt that he would never reach ninety-eight, and he said ไอ me. want to be fair. It is only right that you should have some- thing if I do not reach ninety- eight. But it is just that you should not have it all.'
"He was like that. So he got me to help him put in that bit in his will about deducting £200 for ench year-less than ninety-eight.
plag system of pucts and guarantees) It was that she should forfeit £200 belween neighbours as the best patli for every year or part of a year by to prace in the Pacific.
which he failed to attain ninety- Post-war ́experience, he said, eight. showed that peace was more likely William Stead. died four months to be attained by regional pacts ago Ave years short of themark based on mutually reconcilable self- he had set himself. And in his Interest than on a vague, all- £140,000 will published recently,ganised time schedule, and he was embracing Pacifie pact,
Australia was on the verge of developing her own Pacific foreign policy. Her future place in the new Pacific and even her very existence depended on her cholees in the next few years.
I think he was quite right.
"Mr. Sicad ved his fo to an or
he revealed that he wished his bargain with Nurse Shepperd to be scrupulously just and fair to every kept to the letter.
Nurse Sheppert forfelts £1,000 because her pullent dled five years too soon. But she will receive her £200 a year for the five bargain years he did live. As well, she receive £300 a year for life.
'I LAUGHED'
onc.
"He loved his life and he did not want to die at all.
"I ran his house, his accounts and did everything for him, and I shall and it difficult to adapt myself to a
life of my own now,
"I shall rend books and go for walks in the park, that's all."
In Reigate, William Stead is re-
Entry of Allens. The Federal; Minister for the Interior, Senator Foli, in a statement here on the aliens question, said that there was no serious danger of a dilution of Aus- In her Bayswater, W., flat Inst tralia's British population. The in-night Nurse Shepperd told me of membered as an old man for whom crease of allen population by im- the "joking bargains" on her em-life never lost its thrill. He savoured
that have every minute of it. migration was offset by the natural ployer's life-bargaina increase In Austrolin, During the enriched her by £2,500 in the past first four months of this year assisted thirty years. British migration numbered 1,176, compared with 032 for the whole of
1030.
Nurse Shepperd said: "Mr. Stend never netually said that he was pay- ing me £200 for every year I kept Actor-Producer's Death. The him alive. Oh, dear me, no, Neither denth has taken pince here of the of us looked at it like that.
Nothing missed him.
WATCHED BIRDS
Huddled in rugs in his wheel chair, he would sit for hours in the Krounds of his big house, reading or watching the birds, and always
He liked nothing better than to
nctor-producer, Mr. George Marlow, "He once joking, promised me ready to chat. a native of England. He built the £500 if he lived to be seventy eight. Grand Opern House In Sydney-now Well, when he made that first offer, see young people enjoying them- the Tivoli-20 years ago for his own of course I just laughed.
TWO auxiliary firemen were overcome by fumes and productions. He was 82, and leaves
heat recently during large-scale A.R.P. exercises at Surbiton.
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The men, A. W. Cheek and C. R. Ransom, had entered a large house in Ewell Road, which had been sprayed with oid and petrol and set alight.,
Both were affected and fell to the floor. Ransom recovered sufficiently to crawl out and call to Sectional Divisional Officer W. D. Newark, who rescued Cheek.
More than 1,000 A.R.P. workers took part in the exercise, which was carried out during a "black-out."
Although notices had been posted all over the borough notifying resi-i dents that air raid sirens would be
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selves, and would give dinner par- thetics for as many as forty guests. "But I certainly accepted
handed
Sul in his wheel-chair, he would money when be
fiend of the cheque for C500 on his seventy- take his place at the
table. eighth birthday.
All his servants received some the offer for "Then he doubled
gave me thing in his will, sums varying from another ten years, and
one year's wages for those with less £1,000 when he was eighty-eight.
"The next offer was £2,000 for the than five years service to £150 and The New Zealand Manufacturers' next ten years. We used to laugh £1-a-week for life to his chauffeur, Mr. Stead owned phosphate mines Federation has given its approval to about the whole thing a lot. Every Joseph Shaw. suggestions made by the Government one in the house knew about it.
"He would say sometimes. Ah, in Florida and at one time had his for the subsidising of adult labour
to get that high seas. His wife died in 1908 in Industry.
I suppose you want apprentices to various trades in local you're taking very good care of me own feel of merchant ships on the
Mentore, in the South of France. Development of manufacturing in £2,000?" Maroons were exploded instead. the Dominion ly returded by a Five hundred wardens patrolled scarcity of skilled labour while
programinca of darkened streets while 150 daxillary ambitious
public deal works have had to be maintained to: fremen demonstrated how to with "fires caused by incendiary provide employment for innny thou bombs."
sands of unskilled men and youths.
heard at the beginning and end of the black-out, none were sounded; the Home Once had told the or
anisers that such a step would be "inadvisable."
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Mr. E. T. Spidy, superintendent of workshops for the New Zealand Government, has gone to Sydney to engage 100 skilled Australian work- men or more for work in the
RECENTLY, for the first time in 105 years, old Westminster Dominion,
Hospital was without a patient. An Overseas Force-"If it were
Overacas to All had been moved by ambulance to the hospital's new long life. necessary to send men The municipal zoo has added a pair The death rate for Nevada in 1037, stand by the Mother Country, the £800,000 building in Horseferry Road. The removal took only of hartebeests of South Africa the according to a report released by Dr. Governinent would not be found in 21 hours, and not a single patient felt any after-effects although second to be shown in the United John E. Worden, state health officer, active," declared Mr. R. Semple, States to its collection of untelopes, shows that the urban population of Minister of Public Works, In a speech six were so seriously ill that they were accompanied by a surgeon Ille expectancy of at Wellington recently. The Minis-as well as a nurse. The animals, wildest and zwiftest of the state has a
Twelve inothers were transferred, plaint who since February has never the antelopes, are kept penned most "nearly five-years-greater than that offer was appealing to public works
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She was removed quickly, elec- disconnecting and Among them was, Mrs. Morley,tricians 20-year-old wife of Carshalton necting the apparatus at either end, plasterer, whose baby, Diana, was As the bravest and most uncom- The Indian Trade Commissioners only three hours' old.
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Mrs, Southey is making a remark- Mechanical toys, rubber balloons, receiving two visitors, the baby's able recovery from a recent very wooden toys, pottery, hosiery, knit-father and a family friend,
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"It was wonderful having all this celluloid toys and other articles, buttons, tollet requisites, plassware, happening at the same time," Mrs. clocks and watches, bicycles, and Morley sald. smokers' requisites,
THE "HOMELY" AIR The new hospital will not enlarge the numbers of its patients, though
could take five or six times as many. reckoning on the amount of space for each patient in the old hospital it
Westminster will remain a "home- ly" hospital, with no more than 400 wards with a Diana, however, will be given patients, and small extent
consolation prize of n sliver spoon by maximum of ten beds in each.
But she was disappointed that asked to find out how these indus- for a little, because the obstetric sur The Trade Commissioners will be Dina had not postponed her arrival tries are organised, the sources of geons had offered a cup to the first raw material, and methods of sale baby born in the new hospital. of the finished products, how they are financed, and to what Governments give them assistance.
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all four wails so that the child can see everything that goes on about it.
In the Princess Elizabeth ward One of the most serious cases was cach child has an entire room to mand of the Presidency and Assum that of a woman with a lung com-Itself, with glass sliding windows in District, Eastern Command, and has left for England. He has been an ardent worker on behalf of a fitter Bengal. He leaves behind thousands and of young Bengalis stronger healthier than when he came hire, four years ago. He will be remem bered for many years.
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