NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 115, 16 May 1936, Page 4 (Supplement)

NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS.

£1,000,000 FORTUNE GIVEN UP.

The brewer's son who, as a young man, renounced the life of a millionaire's heir to devote himself to East End mission and temperance work, Mr. Frederick Charrington, left £37,319. To the Tower Hamlets Mission, London, which had been the centre of his life for more than 60 years, he bequeathed £10,000 and the proceeds of sales of house property. The secretary'of the mission, Mr. John Lawrence, and his assistant, Mr. Frederick Harding, receive £1000 and £500 respec-: tively, and other members of the staff share £2000. Osea Island, Essex, on which stands the mission's convalescent home, is to follow a trust for the upkeep of the home. GIRL FROM "NEVER NEVER" LAND. An 18-year-old Australian girl is seeing civilisation for the first time at Perth, West Australia. She is Mies Ellen Margaret Hobley, who since infancy has lived away from the world on a lonely farm in the Northern Territory, Australia's "Never Never" country. She was taken there as a small child by her parents. The family travelled overland from Queensland in a buggy. The journey took three years. Apart from her mother and father, the girl had seen only aborigines, animals, birds and crocodiles. Now she is visiting Perth on holiday with her mother. Cities, towns, trains, motor cars, aeroplanes, wireless sets, glass windows —all are new to her beyond wljat she had read] of them in special educational correspondence courses. BEGAN BUSINESS IN BASEMENT. Election of Mr. Edward E. Rosen as chairman of the Radio Manufacturers' Association during the coming year sets the seal of success on the work of a man whose rise to the top of his industry by the age of 39 is one of the romances of the wireless business. He began his career in 1911, when he was apprenticed to the Marconi Company. After war service with the radio section of the Flying Corps he struck out for himself in 1919 and founded, in a £l-a-week basement, the firm which has grown into the huge Ultra Electric, Limited, selling thousands of sets and radio-gramophones yearly. His firm's new factories in Western Avenue, Acton, cover more than 270,000 square feet and are generally recognised to be the most up-to-date and efficient in the industry.

WIFE AS SHOP WINDOW. A Paris jeweller's wife, suing for divorce, asks for the return of £9500 worth of jewellery which her husband has kept. The husband refuses. In accordance with the custom of trade, he says, he merely used his wife to advertise his gems. The wife replies that if the Court admits this it amounts to a ruling that jewellers' wives: (1) ' Cannot legally receive presents from their husbands; (2) are legally reduced to the equivalent of a shop window. The Court has adjourned to do some hard thinking. SOLDIER TOLD TO FLIRT. A young and handsome soldier of the French air defence fortress at Metz became, at the request of the military police, an amateur detective and, playing the part of the '"perfect lover," captured the heart of his sergeant's young and beautiful wife—his "work" resulting in the arrest of three alleged spies. This was the amazing story unfolded before the Metz Correctional Court. In the dock charged with espionage were: A German professor, Herr Philipp Altmayer, aged 27, of Dilingen, alleged to have been the head of the German espionage service in the Saar before the plebiscite; Sergeant Cridlig, of the 402 Regiment of Air Defence at Metz, and the sergeant's fair wife. According to the prosecution, Sergeant Cridlig's wife met the professor in the Saar and later at his request obtained from her husband plans of the French air defences at Metz. and of a new anti-aircraft gun. Becoming suspicious the ' French military police induced a young soldier to flirt with the sergeant's wife. As a result of his discoveries the couple were arrested. The sergeant agreed to write to Professor Altmayer arranging to meet him on French territory. Two days later the German fell into the trap and was also arrested. DOCTORS IN WAR. The statement that "the Church sent up prayers to heaven during the Great War that must have astonished the angels" was made in a speech to medical students by Dr. O. H. Mayor (James Bridie, the dramatist), wtien presenting prizes at the Anderson College of Medicine in Glasgow, where he was once a pupil and teacher About 20 years ago—and it is a eolemn thought that many or you here can't remember it—the peoples of the civilised world were engaged in smashing, tearing torturing, suffocating, drowning, and starving each other," said Dr. Mayor "If one is to judge by results they were this for no reason at all. It seems to have been all a piece of natural cruelty stupidity and mischief. Almost every estate in the realm, every grade of society, every profession, cheerfully played its part :n creating this mischief. The law, the guardian of abstract justice, prostituted its trust and twisted logic to the devil's ends, Men of letters, who were given their gifts that they might tell mankind the truth, spent all their energies in inventing exciting lies. The medical profession—British, French, German or Russian —came out of it all pretty well They can think of it and hold their heads' They went through the filthy battlefields dodging the flying metal, pulling their comrades out of danger, tending their hurt, and sick without much distinction between friend and enemy." In reference to medical men and literature, Dr. Mavor said: "Some branches of literature such as the composition of novels and the writing of verse can be practised at any one'time of the day by anyone who can read and write. Given si certain type of paranoia, in which voices are habitually heard, it is easv to write plavs." (Lautrhter.) . -

GAS MASKS FOR BRITONB. Work -on the mass nrorlnnt; 30,000,000 gus masks, which wil? 7 ■ tributed free in the event of war ; **» started before the end of the v o^, Britain. Provision ] las been' to ade'hf,!' cm rent estimates for the first 2 000$ The design tor the masks, which wUl* the Government about two shilling" '?f Ims already been approved i» ,M and conferences of manufacturers i, p * in progress to decide on methods of I°' duction. Although considered onlv Ko "second line of defence''—sealed <lnL ! windows being the "first li ne »-Jh anJ will resist the heaviest concentrfe gas tor a quarter cf an hour, and 1 K gas conditions for from four to five h. Rapid progress is being made fo ""Jf* up local air raid precautions Practically every county now \$ ecs form of organisation, and Heitfor/?" 11 has appointed a special Air Kaitl <Pr tions Officer. During the cosmff,™ police and hre brigade offi.-ers v\\\ , trained as instructors at the new fViGas School at Falfield, Gloucester. lllai FOREIGN NAMES IN HARLev STREET. A complaint that English medical Ma , titioners arc- suffering from the compeS' of refugee doctors from the Contimß , made by a Harley Street specialist "iv competition is becoming widespread" h said. "It is very marked in Hampsti, and Goldcre Green People are da S by the apparatus these foreignersT; though the effect may be newlWbls <5 ' times a Harley Street addrels Is olitfc simply for the advertisement it pr<S It is becoming common, also, for doctm still in practice abroad to fly over' to dw form operations or to attend weaithv foreign women who want their children born in London, so that they may W the protection of British nationality," The writer of a letter in the "Lancet" urges tliat British medical societies should investigate applications by foreign student* for staff appointments at hospitals Therp is an increasing "crop of plates: bearinc Continental names in Harley Street the writer declares. i When this view was put to the- medical secretary of the British Medical Associa tion, Dr. G. C. Anderson, he stated that the number of refugees practising in this country could not be more than 150 "w! have always felt," he added, "that the problem was not big enough "for ug to intervene. ■ •;

JILTED ON WEDDING DAY. Wedding guests had arrived—the best man was there—the girl had her wedding gown on ... and then came a phone call that the wedding must be put off. This was the storv told at Lewes Assizes, Sussex, when £220 damages for bread of promise was awarded to Miss Doris Ma iiu Burton, aged 29, of Seville Avenue, Hove, against Hubert Camille Fowler, oi Grosvenor Road, Gunnersbury, W. Summing up, Mr. Justice Finlay said to the jury: "You may think a more upheroic defendant has never appeared in any Court." Mr. Flowers, K.C., for Mia Burton, said that Fowler "was not only a cad, but such a coward that he -would; not go into the witness box tq say. it was Jus mother's fault that he could net marry this girl." Fowler, went on counsel, said his mother was poorly, but when the bride's brother went up to London lie found the mother quite all right. He also found that Fowler had gone away for the week-end.