LATE CABLE NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 17 July 1931, Page 5

LATE CABLE NEWS

WORLD’S NEED. HEALTHY BIRTH RATE. LONDON, July 10. What the world requiries to-day is a higher birth rate among the healthy ana intelligent; classes , and a much iower rate'among the spreaders of low pnysical and mental’ standards, deemed Dr feteila Churchill, at the Royal Sanitary institute Congress at Glas- , • ti ,'-)s* : ' ’-A..' ; ~ - K ' gow. . ■ ' v * . ■ *he urged pre-nuptial medical examination with a “policy of publicity” between prospective parents, so as to reveal family histories. “If educated people would only accept this idea, it would soon spread to other-sections of the community, as to do other, less desirable practices.”.. . •. v

BEE RESEARCH.

CAUSE OF SWARMING

LONDON, July 10.

When the bee nursemaids have insufficient bee babies to which to feed the brood milk that; they carry in their heads, it makes them, uncomfortable. Therefore,, an . excessive number of restless young bees causes, swarm* i«g* •; . / '•; ' k , . • ■- Such, at least, is the new theory on which Mr D. Morldnd, .Director. of - Be© Research ut Rotluuhsted Experimental Station,'is working. Mr Morland, testing his theory, painted a code of colours on bees’ backs a few hours before their entergence from.the, birth cells. The. neighbourhood of the institute’s, hives was soon filled with clouds of furiously busy bees, each spotted red, white or blue, and all ■ competing in a sort of bees’ Derby between the hives and the clover fields for the “Honey. Stakes.” Mr' Morland . says that the experiment thus far has 'proved ■ that very few bees enter the hives to which they do not belong; )' . - K,,'"- r -•. , . . CYNICAL-: CORONER. :: A • SUICIDE TRAGEDY. -.- .; •-■; . LONDON. . July. 10. - .At the) inquest cm ; Andrew Great 1 orex, aged 31, who, after being married' for a , year,- gassed diimself in a Strand offibej 1 . the coroner,- Mr. Ingleby Qddie, said: ; -‘Such is the. end of . a modern type of marriage, which; gonerally lasts about a year. , Hi.s .wife left him, his business left him,-and neither came back. - v . , , .