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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
August 12, 1939.
FAILURE OF APPEAL CUT OFF WITH 1s.
FOR BLOOD-DONORS RESULTS of the first five-days registration of volunteer blood-
donors in the London area are giving concern to the Mini- stry of Health, the Medical Research Council and the hospital.
In five days Tower than 8,000 had come forward of the 100,- 000 required, or only 32 a day for each of the hospitals being used as centres. At Grove Park Hospital, Lec.. there has been only a single registration.
At this rate it would take until | disappointment over the apathy of October to raise this civilian "army," the public" described by u Charing Cross Hospital doctor as the frst line of défence against death."
An official of Westminster Hospital
siki “We had 68 offers on Wednesday, 58 on Thursday, and fewer to-day But we could easily cope with 200 day."
TYPISTS' RESPONSE
Ninety-five per cent, of those who had registered at Westminster were, he said, typists in the 20's. The other five per cent, consisted of well- to-tio and famous people.
There arc other statements made by hospital oficiais connected with the service:
Great Ormand Street Hospital for Sick Children: "The blood-donor appeal seems to be hanging fire."
Middlesex; "We doctors are doing our part. Words cannot describe our
Guy's "The response has been very unsatisfactory."
Charing Cross: "We must admit allure unless something can be done
immediately."
Prince of Wales, Tottenhum: "It has been people have come."
shoek in discover how few
Red County, Edgwara: "It is a shocking state of affairs."
School Farmers Profit
Presque Isle, Me (U.P.)—The local high school chapter of the Future Farmers of América has built and furnished its own chapter house. Members raise and sell seed potatoes, and already have marketed nearly 12,000 baby chicks,
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Yarnell,
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who recently retired from the
service.
WILLS BY NEW
ENDED ACT
REVENGEFUL wills in which people are cut off with a shill- ing, or nothing at all, can now be nullified by the Inheri- tance.Act, which came into operation recently.
Appealy can also ba lodged against wills which leave pro- perty to some freakish object to the exclusion of, dependents.
Under the Act the court may tear of capital payments; in other cases, up the will and redistribute the the payments will be out of income. assets, -
If a testator has omitted to make
•
The court may allot two-thirds of
the income of the estate
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On being divorced, a woman Isses jall benefits under the Act.
EMPIRE NEWS
DAIRY CONTROL IN NEW ZEALAND
Auckland.
Mr. Savage, the Prime Minister, stated in Parliament it was impossible for the Government to disregard the farmers' criticism of the guaranteed dairy price system.
If they wanted no control it was the duty of the Government to revert tu the old methods. The question was under consideration.
13.000.000 Rabbit Skhs-it is call- Inated that 13,000,000 rabbit skins were:
sold in Dunedin in 1938. Centrul stock of rabbits is increasing 1 is renerally agreed that the elimination of the rabbit would increase the carrying capacity of the. land by 2,000,000 sheep.
Army
Omeer for London. To cx- pedite the fulfilment of unders for military material present being placed by the Government in England, the Cabinet an
has decided to station an
officer of the Regular forces in London for a period of two years. The officer selected is Major R. S. Park. He will keep the New Zealand Minister of Defence posted with in- formation concerning the latest de- velopments in armament and equip- ment adopted by the British Army. SOUTH AFRICA
LIMITED RESOURCES OF UNION
Cape Town. Addressing the congress of the South Africa Association for the Ad- vancement of Selence, Mr. J. H. Hofmeyr, the former Minister of Mines, said that South Africa was essentially a poor country.
We are a rich country from the mineral point of view." he said, "but from the agricultural side the country is far from being rich. If you take the national income and divide it-by the populaton you realise what on essentially poor country South Africa
is.
Candidates for Navy-More than half the applications from Johannes- burg and district by boys who wish to join the Royal Navy are from Afrikaans-speaking people, according to the annual report of the Wit- watersrandi branch of the Navy League of South Africa. INDIA
HUNGER STRIKE IN GAOL
Calcutta. Although Mr. Gandhi has an- nounced his disbelief in the hunger strike as prolest measure, his followers have their own views. Of the 56 political prisoners in Dum Dum Central gaol, Ove miles from Calcutta, 37 have been on hunger strike so as to force the Bengal Government to release the remainder of the political prisoners still in gaol.
The Governmeni has no intention of being intimidated, In the Legisla ture the Home Member said that the hunger strike was an open threat to the Government. He would suspend the consideration of the remaining cases by the Advisory Committee until the maintenance of a suitable atmosphere has been assured.
B.B.C. MAN LOVED A JEWESS
MR. E. J. HUTT, a 26-year-old
M.B.B.C. lines engineer, who was
found dead in his car in Ashdown Forest recently, is said to have been in dve with a Jewish girl whose family opposed their marriage on religious grounds.
When Mr. Hutt's body was found his car was standing in a secluded part of the forest, near Nutley,
A rubber pipe led from the exhaust.
Mr. Hult had been employed in the lines department of the B.B.C. for about two years. He had a flat al Camden Town, but usually spent week-ends ut his parents' address in Dovercourt Road, East Dulwich,
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