1939-04-20 — Page 14

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April 20, 1939.

Test Tube "Accident" Leads to Amazing

Amazing Discovery

Chemist Makes

Their Majesties King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, accompanied

by Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret, pald on informal visit to Broadcasting House recently.

The Royal party was received by Mr. R. C. Norman, Chairman of the Board of Governors, and Mr. F. W. Ogilvie, Director-General,

Accompanied by Mr. Ogilvie, Sir Cecil Graves, Deputy Director- General, and Mr. 11. Bishop (Assistant Controller, Engineering), their Majesties and the Princesses Inspected studios where programmes were in rehearsal and the Control Room (above), afterwards-taking tea in the Director-General's office. Here they listened by loudspeaker to a repro- duction of the conversation that had been recorded a few minutes before while they were inspecting a studio, Miss Margery Fry and Dr. J. J. Mallon, Governors; Mrs. F. W. Ogilvie: Mr, B. E. Nicolls, Controller (Pro- Krammes): Sir Stephen Tallents, Controller (Fabic Relations); and Mr. F. Lochhead, Controller (Administration) were presented to their Majesties and took ten with the Royal party.

After tea the King and Queen sat with the two Princesses for half an hour in the balcony of a studio watching the Children's Hour broadcast. The Royal party's tour also included visits to the Concert Hall, in which the BBC Empire Orchestra was rehearsing, to the studios from which the oversea and Home news bulletins are broadenst, to the Effects Studio, where typical effects were demonstrated, and to the Green Room. In addition, their Majesties saw the rehearsal of a dence-music programme, and watched a producer at work at a dramolle-control panel. By Courtesy B.D.C.

Soil From

Christmas

Island For Cocos

THERE is such a complete lack of earth on Cocos Island, the coral atoll in the Indian Ocean which is part of the Straits Settlements, that soil had to be transferred from Christmas Island so that a garden could be made at Cocos.

Frocks

"Poor Persons"

Divorce Rush

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TRIUMPH OF 30 YEARS' QUEST

WOMEN will soon be wearing clothes made of real gold at a cost within the reach of quite moderate incomes. Professor Charles Stanley Gibson, 55-year-old chief of the chemistry department at Guy's Hospital, London, is the first man, in the world to apply gold successfully to all kinds of fabrics.

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His amazing discovery, which will revolutionise the textile trade, was made by chance,

For 30 years Professor Gibson, a native of Manchester, has been engaged in research work with gold compounds, latterly with the object of perfecting a curo for rheumatoid arthritis.

One morning he entered his laboratory at Guy's Hospital and picked up a test tube in which the ingredients for an experiment had been left overnight.

To his surprise the test-tube was covered with gold. Methodi- cally he searched among his notes until he found details of the experiment. Ho repeated it and again the test-lube became covered with gold.

Further experiments, based on the original lucky discovery, were cor Iried out with glasses, mirrors, and all)

kinds of china ware.

A "WELL-NIGH overwhelming de-of mand" for legal assistance in divorce cases, following upon the passing of the Martrimonial Causes Act, Is mentioned in the annual report on Poor Persons Procedure, issued by the Law Society.

Since the Act came into force on

Jattuary last year, some loent com- had found that their work had become five times heavier, and In London there were 6,373 appli- cations for certificates, compared with 2,047 In 1937. Provincial applications probably numbered more than 10,- |000.

The report, which has been adoptert by the Law Society, states:

DESERVING CASES

"All the additional opportunities for approaching the High Court have been made use of eagerly by those for whose service the Poor Persons Pro- cedure was established, but the right far beyond all others which has been Invoked Is that which has accred through desertion,"

HIS GOLD CLOTH They were covered with a coating

gold of infinitesimal thinness,

Next the Professor turned his attention to the problem of ap plying cold to cloth and to-day hola able to announce a trium- phant conclusion to his experi- ments.

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BRITISH AIR LINER RESUMES FLIGHT

MOMBASA. The Imperial Airways flying-boot Cambria, which was forced down off the coast of Portuguese East Africa, arrived in Mozambique recently.

The Cambria sent out an SOS after alighting on the sea 20 miles from Mozambique. She was refuel- led by a tug which answered her БОС for SOS, and then went on to Lumbo,]

where she arrived. Nobody was hurt, and the mails on board are safe.

silk, he said: "You

Showing a plece of dazzling gold yourself what can be done,

"This, I claim, is the first time that cloth has been firmly allied to

gold.

"The discovery is bound to have important commercial possibilities. The cost of gold fabrics and cloths will depend on the amount of gold put into them, but it need not be prohibitive.

"In any case, the gold will re- main

even when the cloth strands are worn out, and, thus can be used again.” --

CRYSTALS SECRET.

pressure in London, the report states Commenting on the severity of the that of the 0,373 applications 2,873 1937. were granted, compared with 1,221 in

One local committee "There is no doubt that the new Act has brought rellef to a great number This story was told recently at a presentation made of deserving cases." by Mr. Edward Wilshaw, chairman of Cable and Wireless,

The Liverpool Committee record a

in which certificate Ltd., at the company's headquarters in London, to Mr. granted to a soldier on leave from tion began to film on the surface of

Indin. The proceedings were ex- the flank, W. B. Jackson, assistant manager of the Phosphate Com-pedited so that he might rejoin his "That film of gold," he said, "is pany at Christmas Island,

regiment, the decree was made abso-one in 10 millions part of an inch Jute,

and shortly afterwards he re-thick." pore and Cocos, the Cable and Wire married the woman he had just less staff on the island subscrbed for divorced.

Professor Gibson, the man with

Mr. Jackson has facilitated ship- inents of soil from Christmas Island to Cocos Istand, on which is situated an important cable station on the mali line overseas telegraph route to Australia, midway between Cey- Jon and Australia.

The soll received from Christmas Island had enabled the Cable and Wireless staff at Cucos to lay out five gardens, thus providing sufficient fresh vegetables and salad for stoff stationed at this isolated outpost of Empire and offering a welcome al- ternative to tinned foods.

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It is stated here that the forced Junding was due to engine trouble. A.R.P. work is being carried out at

A.B.P. Work at Kisumu-Intensive, Kisumu, where Indian members of the population are spending their spare time digging trenches.

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in demonstrating No selected a WATERFRONT LABOUR battle marked with a long chemical few crystals from it into a flask. formula (including gold), shook a

AUCKLAND. With a pipette, he sucked some al- reported:

culiol from another bottle, and added Minister of Labour, recently addressed Me. P. C. Webb, the New Zealand the alcohol drop by drop to the cry-a conference of representatives {stuls,

After he had shaken the flask until here to consider the rise in costs due shipping interests, who are meeting the crystals had dissolved, the soluto labour troubles on the waterfront. F1349.

ife said that 3,000 working days were lost last year owing to disputes, F1350. and that no Government could stand the rising costs The men refused to be discipli

of disorganisation. F1351. As things were going, added, the waterfront would become F1957. the laughing stock of New Zealand.

Lord Nuffield Coming Homc.--Vis F1350. count Nuffield, who has been on a F1358, world tour, left Wellington recently for England in the liner Rangitiki, F1300. 16,690 tons. On the eve of his de- parture he met Mr. Frederick Polly, F1300. n former schoolmate, and they ex- changed reminiscences.

the Midas touch, is now wondering Mr. H. S. Hayman, of Bourne- what other articles he can turn to son which was handed to them by mouthCommittee,suggests that gold. the chairman of Cable and Wireless, some form of State subsidy will be Lid., in the presence of other direc-operative for legal services us for tors and officials of the company in

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