For swimming to the rescue of entombed miners at Ivillan Colliery, Mr George Jones and Captain El. F. Hees are to receive Carnegie Hero Trust certificates of honour and £2O each. Forty-five out /of .50 local schoolboys, voluntarily trained during their summer holidays in the art of lifesaving by the Oxford City Police, were awarded certificates in the final test. American tennis players aro the world's best. These crack Americans claim thoy are better players because they use a Better Ball —Spaldings' Plugless. Obtainable throughout NewZealand. —3 The tango, which v is promised a revival in popularity shortly, is generally # described as of South American origin, but a claim has also been lodged on behalf of France. It has been identified with the old "degognado" of Auvcrgnc. A description of the dance, as witnessed by Flechier at Vichy in 1676, tallies with the modern version to a remarkable degree. Tho degognade, significantly enough, is believed to havo been "an imitation of the dances of the Bacchantes so much spoken of in the ancient books.'*
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Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18551, 28 November 1925, Page 8
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