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THE SERVICES

THE SERVICES

ROYAL NAVY

CHIEF ENGINEER AT SIMONSTOWN

THE ARMY

REORGANIZATION IN INDIA General Sir Walter Pitt-Taylor, Engineer Captain Geonard K.C.B., C.M.G., D.5.0., is to vacate Thackara is appointed as Chief his appointment as General Officer

at Commanding-in-Chief. Engineer at the Dockyard Emonstown, in succession to En Command, India, on October 31, glacer Captain G. F. Croker He and will be on leave from August was relieved recently as gunmount-30 till that date.

RETURN OF THE SCARBOROUGH

a

AIR-COOLED

CLOTHES

Air-cooled colthing is an Its way, Miss. Leone Aan Heuer, representative of a Anance company, told delegates to the 31st annual meeting of the American Western

Home

Economics Association in Pennsylvania. **Startling changes are to be expected in textiles in the next few years,” she said.

ing overseer at the Vickers works A successor will not be appointed, Barrow-in-Furness, by Engineer since under the reorganization Captain H. Bleackley, M.V.O. scheme in India the "western fron-

tier will come under a district com mander, major-general. The headquarters of the new Western The escort vessel Scarborough, District will be at Quetta, and Commander H. St. L. Nicolson, there will be three infantry bri. arrived

Sheerness from St.gades in the area. John's, Newfoundland, on August The headquarters of the Western 18, and was received at Chatham Command at Klamari, Sind; will Dockyard in the afternoon.

close on August 31. After that date The Scarborough, been employed on the America frontier will

The new materials will be crush proof, crease resistent, water-proof," and spot resistent —and there will be air-cooled finishes.""

'SPLIT MIND "

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31, 1938.

LONDON BOYS

ARE GOOD LINGUISTS

Headmaster's View

Impatience with critics who iament the Englishman's supposed' Inability to master foreign langu ages was expressed by the head- master of Emanuel School, Mr. C.. G. M. Broom, speaking at the

Battersea school speech-day in Town Hall recently.

"It is clear." he said, "that the London boy can learn modern languages, write, talk. and even sing them. I business really wants young . linguists they, use easily to be... found."

"A vital subject for which I feel time must soon be found in the curriculum, too. Is citizen

he added.

which has headquarter work for the western Medical Men Disagreey citizenship I mean a

be carried on at

dis.

LAMMERTS' AUCTIONS

PUBLIC AUCTION.

TEE Undersigned have received.

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TO SELL BY

7

PUBLIC AUCTION

ON

WEDNESDAY, the 31st AUGUST.. 1938.

Commencing at 10.00 am.

At their Sales Room, No. 2, Connaught Road, Central, Ground Floor.

A Quantity of Valuable Rugs,

Station since she was completed in Quetta, and Major-General T. Over Woman's Death passionate account of our in- Carpets, Table Linen, Mandarin

1930, will be taken in hand for a Hutton, MC has gone there for long refit, and will be replaced the purpose. later by a riew vessel

by

A disagreement ОУСГ the death of a woman who was OVERSEA APPOINTMENTS

said" to be suffering from NAVAL APPOINTMENTS

Colonel C.J. Wallace. D.S.O.. schizophrenia, or "split" mind,"

occurred at a The following appointments are QBE, M.C., who is to command

St. Pancras in- made by the. Admiralty:-

the 3rd (Jhelum) Infantry Brigade, quest recently between Sir is A.A, and QM.G, with the 1st Bernard Spilsbury, the patho Capt.-P. C. W. Manwaring, to Division at Aldershot and wil Terror II Sept. 9), and to, ferm vacate that appointment in De

logist, and a German specialist. II. in command, and as Chlef Staffcember on being succeeded

The deputy coroner. Mr. W. R. Officer to the Commodore Malay Lieutenant-Colonel G. E. Mansergh, syncope following an injection of Heddy, sald that death was due to: (undated).

M.G.. on transfer from Egypt

70 units of insulin, and he record- Cdrs. (E).-K. E. Smith. to Lieutenant-Colonel, J. F. W.

ed a verdict of accidental death on Pembroke for

Elt course

RAFAllen, M.C., the new A.Q.M.G. for Mrs. Barbara Fowler-Seaverns. 29. School of Aeronautical Engineer Cairo, is commanding the 1st of Palace Gate-terrace, W. Ing, Henlow (Aug. 29); M. G. Evans. Battalion, The Bus at Lucknow. to Kelly (Sept. 8).

and will vacate command next It.-Cdr... (E).-J. Fitzgibbon tmonth. Pembroke for course at RAF. School of Aeronautical Engineer- Ing, Henlow (Sept. 15),

Lts.-C. E. R. Sharp, to Titania! (Aug. 18)") R. M. D. Ponsonby, to Intrepid (Aug. 19); A. H. Godwin, R. Jenner-Fust, to Cochrane: W H1. Bowater, to Argus (Aug, 22); J. R. C. Moultrie, M. Bruce (F/Lt. RA.F), to Pembroke for course at

The commander of the new 18th Infantry Brigade, Briga- der 0. H. Tidbury, M.C., was on the staff in Egypt and was with the 1st Battalion, The Middlesex Regiment in that country. He relinquishes com- inand of the battalion, now. in Hong Kong

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stitutions and social system. an Coats. Shirts. Lingerie, Blackwood Impartial analysis of party pre- Furniture, etc., etc.

grammes, and a fundamental ex position of the rules of accurate thinking."

The Fastest Living Thing

The fastest living thing is the 'bot fly, which files at more than 400 miles an hour, de- clared Dr...C. H. Curran of the American Museum of Natural History 'in an interview at Ot- tawa.

Mr. James Morgan Fowler- Seaverns said that his wife, after giving birth to a child in April, had

A controversy about the bot fly been acutely distressed and suf- has been raging in North Ameri- tered from delusions.

ca since one scientist claimed a Dr. Frederik Selgheim, psychla- speed of 818 miles an hour for the trist and specialist in mental tiny insect, while another said It

On VIEW from TUESDAY, the 30th AUGUST, 1938)

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*LAMMERT BROS.:

AUCIONEERS.

BY ORDER OF

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disorders, said that he was for was only capable of 22 miles an PUBLIC AUCTION.

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merly attached to the Berlin Mantal-hour. Hospital, and had been in this Dr. Curran remained silent country since 1935. He prescribed about the question until inter- five units of insulin for Mrs., viewed at Ottawa.

The new brigade will comprise Fowler-Seaveros at first, and this No. 1 Air Armament School, R.AF. the 1st Battalion, The Worcester was slowly increased to 70 units. Manby: W. B, Axford, to Pembrokeshire Regiment, the 2nd Battalion. for course at R.A.F. School of The King's Own Royal Regiment Aeronautical Engineering. Ferow and the 2nd Battalion, The Leices- (Aug. 29); C. D. Madden, to Victory tershire Regiment, now preparing (Sept. 3) V. D. Ravenscroft, tojat Aldershot for service in Pales- Jervis (Sept. 20)

tine.

Pay L.-J. N. Rennie, to Vin- dictive (Sept. 10).

Sub-Lts.. R.

Paterson,

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ROYAL AIR FORCE

In June, when she developed a septle throat and bronchitis, the doses were stopped. On July 11, after sleeping and breathing normally, she col- lapsed suddenly.

Of the following valuable lease- "Wasps and bumble bees are hold property situate at North slow Insects, yet they have been Point, Victoria, in the Colony of known to pass automobiles going Hong Kong, being All that piece at 60 miles an hour," Dr. Curran or parcel of ground registered in said. "The deer is undoubtedly the Land Office as The Remaining the fastest mammal in North Portion of Inland Let No. 2366 and America-it has a top speed of 70 the Extension thereto together or 80 miles an hour-but the bot with the messuages erections and buildings thereon known as Nos.

He could not concede that deathy can go by it like a streak of

Lightning." was due to insulin, but to a septic

Dr. Curran laughed at the state. It might be that insulin

argument that the bot Hy Kittiwake (Aug. 25); G. D. Browne, ]

might have something to do with ADVANCED. SPECIALISTS,

would be squashed by air pres- P. L. S. Morris, J. N. Kempton, J.

the death. He had studied the in- Flight Lieutenant J. A. Tester, sulin treatment for schizophrenia

sure at a speed of 400 miles an Whitton, C. H. Peterkin, M. F. R.

hour. Ainslie, LA. Jones, R. E. West-who has successfully completed a fiu Vienna 'under the discoverer of macott. A. L. Harper. C. R. Pelly, specialist signals course at Dam- the method, and, in Switzerland. M. H. Davis, D. H. Mackay, H. R.bridge University and the Royal Sir Bernard Spilsbury said that cannot compare them to any other W. Twyman, G. H. Carew-Hunt, M. Aircraft Establishment. Farnbor in his opinion the woman died living thing. You can freeze them D. Pope, to Dolphin for S/M course ough, is granted the symbol "S" " from the effects of insulin. A or put them in a vacuum

"Whoever says that, does not know Insects," he said, You

for a Flight Leutenants F. Bathurst functional disorder from a previous few minutes and see them crawl-

we do know that it does not eat."

(Sept. 5),

Mid-R. A. W. Pool, to Roys! and E. R. Pearce, who were award- infection. working with insulin ing about half an hour later with

ed the "E" symbol on completing, could have caused death, but from no apparent injury. Sovereign (Sept. 11.

the specialist engineering course at his examination he Payr. Mid.-W. G. Marshali, to the School of Aeronautical En-opinion she was healthy six weeks fly gets its tremendous energy but was of the "We do not know where the bot Liverpool (Sept. 1). '

gineering, Henlow, in July, 1937, are before her death. Naval Cadets-D. R. L. Bevan, B. now awarded the symbol "E" on c G. Place, W. R. Servaes, C. R. the completion of the post-graduate Barrett, T. E. T. Favell, J. E. Kay. course in aeronautical engineer- E N. Haigh, N. D. Royds. W. B. Huling at the Imperial College of bert. I. F. O. Alford, F. A. Clemin- Science. and Technology which son, J. E. Pops, E. A Hobson, J. terminated in June, 1938. Pilgt K. Laughton, P. E Durham, Officer C. Makamsara, of the Royal P. J. Nops, H. E Gardam Siamese Air Force also successful- DR. Sheppard, R. A. A. C. Ward y completed this course.

D. W. Norman. H. G. Knowles, R

M. S. May. C. C. Ollivant, A

Hemelryk. N. M. Patterson. T. L LONDON'S FLATS

Davies. A. A. Rae-Smith, G. A Adlard, D. H. Hallifax, L. G. Raikes, A. J. Boyall, J. W. Kelly, C. B Fetherstone-Dike, E., S. St. L

CRITICISED

Moore, W. L. Clinton-Baker. J. W Lack Human Touch

H Miller. G. N. Micklem. E. G. N Mansfield, G. D. Agard-Butler, R.

P. Fitzgerald, J. 8. de M. HIU. J. F

L Holmes, N. Fitzherbert, A H. L. Harvey. L. Farman, C. E A. Buist

Of Slums".

London's new blocks of flats were described as "bad" by the |J. A. R. Troup. R. C. E. Watkin, P. Rev. G. N. Ensor Walters at the

M. Austin, to Vindictive" for train- Methodist Conference at ing (Sept. 12).

recently.

Hull

The King On Australian Soil

In France

WAR WIDOWS' TEARS AT

SACRED HILL

With green close-cropped turf, pay roves, and sweet country flowers, these few acres on the top of Fouliloy Hill, where stands the impressive white stone memorial to 10,000 Australian dead, 'now |form part of Australia for all the centuries to come.

The King thus made his first public appearance on Australian soll as King of that great Dominion, and at the gates of the 'ceme- tery received the President of the French Republic, M. Albert Lebrun.

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2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24, 20, 28, 30, 32, 34 36, 98 and 40 Fort Street.

Area 480,830 sq. ft. or there- abouts.

Crown rent $4,822.20.

To be sold

IN ONE LOT

by

PUBLIC AUCTION

on

WEDNESDAY.

The 31st Day of„AUGUST, 1938,

at 3 O'CLOCK - P.M.

by

Messrs. LAMMERT BROTHERS, At their AUCTION - ROOMS No. 2, CONNAUGHT ROAD

CENTRAL

Becond Floor,

Victoria aforesaid.

For further Particulars and Con- ditions of Bale, apply to

Messrs. JOHNSON, STOKES and MASTER,

Hongkong & Shanghat Bank Building, Solicitors for the Vendora,

.or to

Messrs. LAMMERT BROTHERS,

The Auctioneers.

Khaki-clad French cavalry, and leading to the great white memo.... Infantry guarded the sacred acres riad. devoted. to the Australian "dead. Both the King and Queen, who The living were represented by were accompanied by Field Mar- Pay. Cadets.-R. N. Heard, to'

"The slums

hundreds of pilgrims from all sha! Lord Birdwood, Lord Gowrie, are gradually Liverpool; R. J. E. Haynes.. Roya

parts of Australia, mothers an| Governor-General of Australia: going as they should have Sovereign; P. Goddard, to Corn-

widows wearing the medals of the Sir Earlé Page, Deputy Prime gone years ago, " he said.

dead, their eycs tear filed when Minister of Australia, and other wall; C. J. H. Genge, to Sheffield; J.

"But in the old slums the people King George spoke to them; war Australian officers and officials, C. Davies, to Royal Sovereign; F

were homely and human. whereas veterans, many of them maimed tncluding, Mr. S. M. Bruce, the C. Quinton, to Nelson; M. C M.

these huge barracks Jack the or blinded, but all ready with High Commissioner, stopped fre- AMBULANCE THAT Jephson to Revenge; M. L Cully, D. M. Lawder, to Resolution; J. Pauman touch. In some of these lusty cheers for their King and quently to talk to veterans and to Mallett, o Rodney: J. F. E. Lynes, and we are finding it very dim.

flats you cannot get at the people Queen.

One of the first ambulances in P..R. Bizley, to warspite; J. P.

cult to get them into the chur-

Britain specially equipped Banbury. R. H. Sharpe, I P.

It was a fitting ending for the three-quarter coat, trimmed with Great ches."

for dealing with air casualties was Goodwin, to Kent, all for training

royal visit to France, which while white fox fur. Difficulties due to huge populat has consolidated and proclaimed

"God Save the King" and, the dedicated by the Bishop of Ply- (Sept. 1).

tions being taken from one dis-Anglo-French

also Marseillaise" were played. the mouth for the St. John Ambulance unity, has trict to another were mentioned stressed In such urumistakeable first by a French military band at Plymouth recently.. Philomel (Sept. 1), and lent to NZ by the Rev. Dr. F. Luke Wiseman. language that the Anglo-French and the second by that of the The ambulance, which can safe-

Cd.

Gunner.-M.

Marjot

Government for three years,

"The "result," he said, "is Senior Masters-H. J. Jewell, to

that some of our town chapels Drake for R.N.B. (Aug. 29); L. J. are denuded and deprived of Daw, to Courageous (Bept. 1); H. F. support, while at the same short, to St. Vincent (Sept. 3). :. ‚time inhabitants of new areas Schoolmasters \(C.WO).-L. 0. find themselves without any Bibborn, to Excellerit (Sept. 3); R. religious accommodation at all E Daw, to Vernon (Sept. 57; T. R. "I am appalled, as I go about Smart, to St. Angelo (Sept. 12) the country, to see populations of Gunners.-G. A. Saunders (T), to 25.000. 30.000. and up to 60,000 Wessex (Aug.10); L. H. Mager, to newly come into neighbourhoods Auckland (Sept, 13).

for which little or no provision is Schoolmasters-J. M.--Whitaker made.”.

The

GEARD RELAXED

shake hands with them.

The Queen was in white with as

Entente, which is directed against Grenadier Guards. nobody, has for its sole objective the furtherance of the cause of peace.

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The ceremonial was impres~" sive in its simplicity. For the first time since the King and Queen set foot in France most of the strict 'rules. laid down by the cautious anxiety of the French authorities were relax- ed.

The King' and' Queen

IS GAS PROOF

ly pass through an area of gas, has most of its fittings constructed of SOLEMN SILENCE After speeches the King press-steel for ease of decontamination, ed a button and the two great and all internal equipment has Australian flags fell away. disclos-been designed for rapid removal ing the base of the monument for treatment after contamination with its inscriptions. Prayers were by mustard gas. then read, first by the Rev. George

Green, ex-chaplain to the 13th) The King the President, and Australian Infantry Brigade, and Sir Earle Page then stepped for. ward and laid wreaths at the foot then by the Bishop of Amiens.

"Last Post was sounded, the of the memorial de M were drums rolled and died down, and Land of Hope and Glory"" was Rey, Richard Pyke. of among their own people and they there was a solemn minute of sung by the crowd as the King Southport, was elected as presi- moved about freely between the allence. Then clear from the bel-end Queen and the President re-i W.SO.-W. E. V. Woods, to Argus dent-designate for 1939 with 395 lines of war veterans and pilgrims fry which surmounts the monu joined their cars to drive back to (Aug. 17).

votes out of a total of 129.

¡drawn up in the main avenuement came "Reveille."

to Aurora (Aug. 31); H. Bell, to Diomede (Sept. 3)..

Villers-Bretonneux. Station.