English Cures Stammering

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30399, 25 March 1964, Page 23

English Cures Stammering

(N.Z.P. A. -Reuter—Copyright) MOSCOW, March 22. Russians in Siberia are being cured of stammering by learning to speak English, Moscow Radio said last night. An article by a Moscow university professor who investigated methods used at the Vladivostok Medical Institute, reported that he found a woman in charge of the foreign languages department who had already cured 11 stammerers by giving them a 40-lessons course in English.

An Ashburton caterer seems to have got over his problem of keeping up a plentiful supply of boiling water to the public at country shows and sports events. At the Methven show on Saturday an old Marshall traction engine quietly puffed steam into a 100-gallon tank of water keeping it on the boil.

The engine belongs to 17-year-old Allan Proctor, of Tinwald, and his father, Mr W. A. Proctor, who was standing alongside the old engine, said that they were providing the water under arrangement with an Ashburton caterer. Mr Proctor said that it could not be claimed that the idea was a new one. He believed it was a technique used at the Christchurch show in the early years of this century, but it seemed to have

been largely forgotten before the revival of interest in the old. engines a few years ago. The Proctors now have several “boiling water” engagements. They have performed the service for two years at the Ashburton show, and at the Chertsey gymkhana, where they will be in action again on Easter Monday. At Methven on Saturday they had a 100-gallon tank on top of the deck of a light truck with a tube from the engine carrying the steam into the tank. Mr Proctor said that with a reasonable head of steam up they could have the tank full of cold water boiling in only five or six minutes. “We guarantee that our water is on the boil,” said Mr Proctor.