Wednesday,
Allegiance Cripple made
Oath
Franz Joseph 11, ruling prince of tiny Liechtenstein, un cast- ern Swiss frontler, takes oath of allegiance ut Vaduz. Country har pupulation of 11,500. Last member of Its standing army dled this year.
A.R.P. Firemen Overcome
In Burning House
TWO auxiliary firemen were overcome by fumes and heat recently during large-scale A.R.P. exercises at Surbiton.
The men, A. W. Check and C. R. Ransom, had entered a large house in Ewell Road, which had been sprayed with old and petrol and set alight.
Both were affected and fell heard at the beginning and end of to the floor. Ransom recovered the black-out, none were sounded; the Home Ofice har told the or« sufficiently to crawl out and callers that such a step would be to Sectional Divisional Officer inadvisable." W. D. Newark, who rescued Cheek.
More than 1,000 A.R.P. workers look part in the exerelse, which was carried uut during a "black-out."
Although notices had been posted | all over the borough notifying rest- dents that air raid streng would be
Zoo Gets Hartebeests
ST. LOUIS.
Maroons were exploded instead. Five hundred wardens patrolled darkened streets while 150 auxiliary remen demonstrated how to deal with "ires caused by incendiary bombs,"
Urban Nevada Life Longer
on
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
July 12, 1939.
£2,000 'bargain
his
EMPIRE NEWS
AUSTRALIAN POLICY IN THE PACIFIC
last
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. Shopperd, the University, in a lecture recommended Woman who had looked after a gradually widening and overlap-him for forty years.
SYDNEY.
ping system of pacts and guarantees It was that she should forfeit £200 between neighbours as the best path for every year or part of a year by to peace in the Pacific.
which he failed: Sto attain intacty-..
Post-war experience, hy salt, ciglit,
Just over a year ago, I believe he feit that he would never reach ninety-eight, and he said to me, I want to be fair. It is only right that you should have some- thing if I do not reach minely- eight. But It is just that you should her have it all.”
"He was ke that. So he got me to help him put in that bit in his will about déducting £200 for each year less than ninety-eight.
I think he was quite right.
"Mr. Stend lived his life to an or-
showed that peace was more likely William Stead died four months to be attained by regional pacis ago-five years short of th, emark 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 Pacific puct,
he revealed that he wished his scrupulously just and fair to every Australia was on the verge of bargain with Nurse Shepperd to be one. developing her own Pacifle foreign kept to the letter. polley. Her future place in the new Pacifle and even her very existence depended on her choices in the next few years,
Nurse Shepperd forfeits £1,000 because her patient died 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'
"He loved his Hle 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 dificuli to adapt myself to a
life of my own now,
"I shall read books and go for walks in the park, that's all."
In Reigate, Willem Stead is re-
Nothing missed him,
WATCHED BIRDS
Entry of Aliens The Federal Minister for the Interior, Senator Foll, in a statement here on the aliens question, said that there was no serious danger of dilution of Aus-
In her Bayswater, W. Bat last tralia's British population. The In-night Nurse Shepperd told me of membered as an old man for whom crease of alien population by im the "joking bargains" on her em-life never lost its thrill. He savoured migration was offset by the natural ployer's life-bargains that have every minute of it.. Increase in Australia. During the enriched her by £2,500 in the past! first four months of this year assisted thirty years. British migration numbered 1,170, compared with 052 for the whole of 1938.
Actor-Producer's
Deal. The death has taken place here of the actor-producer, Mr. George Marlow, a native of England. He built the Grand Opera House in Sydney-now the Tivell 20 years ago for his own productions. He was 02, and leaves a wife and daughter. NEW ZEALAND
SKILLED LABOUR
SHORTAGE
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Jabour
Nurse Shepperd said: "Mr. Stead) never actually said that he was pay- Ing me £200 for every year I kept him alive. Oh, dear me, no. Neither of us looked at it ilke that,
Huddled - In rugs in his wheel chair, he would sit for hours in the grounds of his big house, rending or watching the birris, and always "He once, Joking. promised me ready to chat. £500 if he lived to be seventy-eight. I lked nothing better than to Well, when he made that first offer, see young people enjoying them- of course I just laughed.
selves, and would give dinner par-
"But 1 certainly nccepted the ties for as many as forty guests. money when he handed me a Sul in his wheel-chair, he would cheque for £600 on his seventy-take his place at the head of the
table. eighth birthday.
All his servants received some-
"Then he doubled the offer forf another ten years, and gave me thing in his will, suma varying from 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, Federation has given its approval to about the whole thing a lot. Every Joseph Shinw
Mr. Stead owned phosphate mines) suggestions made by the Government one in the house knew about it. for the subsidising of adult
"He would say sometimes. Ah, In Florida and at one time had his apprentices to various trades in local you're taking very good care of me own fleet of merchant ships on the bilustry.
I suppose you want to get that high seas. His wife died in 1908 in Development of manufacturing in £2,0007
Mentone, in the South of France. the Dominion Is retarded scarelty of skilled labour while!
by a ambitious works have had to be maintained to programmes of public provide employment many thou- sands of unskilled men and youths.
Mr. E. T. Spidy, superintendent of workshops for the New Zealand Government, jus gone to Sydney to engage 100 skilled, Australlan work- men or more for Dominion.
work in the
Bravest Woman Patient
First In New Hospital
·
RECENTLY, for the first time in 105 years, old Westminster An Oversean Force.-"if it were Hospital was without a patient.
necessary to tend men overseas to stand by the Mother Country, the Government would not be found in- etive" declared Mr. R. Semple, Minister of Public Works, in a speech
All had been moved by ambulance to the hospital's new £800,000 building in Horseferry Road. The removal took only 21 hours, and not a single patient felt any after-effects although six were to seriously ill that they were accompanica by a surgeon
CARSON CITY, Nev. Live in the city for a long life. The municipal zeo has added a pair! The death rate for Nevada in 1937, of hartebeests of South Afrien. the recording to a report released by Dr. second to be shown the United John E. Worden, state health officer, States to its collection of antelopes, shows that the urban population of The animals, wildest and swiftest of the state has a life expectancy of at Wellington recently. The Minis- as well as a nurse. the antelopes are kept penned most, nearly five years greater than that ofter-was-appealing-to-public-works of the time because of their wildness.rural Inhabitants.
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employees to join the New Zealand five at a time, in one of the roomy been without a suction apparatus "Twelve mothers were transferred; | plaint-who-since February has never defence forces.
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She was removed quickly, clec- arms of a nurse.
recon- Among them was Mrs. Morley,tricions disconnecting and 26-year-old wife of a Carshalton necting the apparatus at either end. CALCUTTA. plasterer, whose baby, Diana, was As the bravest and most uncom- The Indian Trade Commissioners only Urce hours' old.
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Tokyo ure to be asked by the Pro- vincial Governments of India to secure information about the follow-Diana and her mother that by two the first patient to be put to bed in The journey did so little horm tofaugurate the new hospital by being ing minor industries in their coun- o'clock in the afternoon, the usual it. tries:
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Mechanical toys, rubber balloons, receiving two visitors, the baby's Mrs. Southey is making a remark-
cutlery, stationery,
wooden toys, pattery, hosiery, knit-futher and a family friend. tel Koods, celluloid toys and other articles, "It was wonderful having all this! buttons, tollet requisites, ghasware, happening at the same time," Mrs. clocks and watches, bleycles, and Morley said.
mokers' requisites,
But
able recovery from a recent very severe head operation.
THE "HOMELY" AIR The new hospital will not enlarge she was disappointed that the numbers of its patients, though! The Trade Commissioners will be Diana had not postponed her arrival each patient in the old hospital t reckoning on, the amount of space for asked to find out how these indus- for a lttle, because the obstetric sur-could take five or six times as many. tries are organised, the sources of geons had offered a up to the first raw material, and methods of sale baby born in the new hospital,
of the finished products, how they
Westminster will remain a "home÷!
are financed, and to what extent Dionu, however, will be given patients, and smali words with a
Governmento give them assistance.
consolation prize of a silver spoon by
A Fitter Bengal-Major-Gen. G. the chairman.
Ly" hospital, with no more than 400 maximum of ten beds in ench.
In the Princess Eilzabeth ward entire room to
all four walls so that the child can |sce everything that goes on about it.
M. Lindsay has relinquished com- One of the most serious cases was ench chlid has mand of the Presidency and Assam 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 urdent worker on behalf of a fitter Bengal. He leaves behind thousands of young Bengalla stronger and healthier than when he came here, four years ago. He will be remem- bered for many years.
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