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Hokitika Guardian, 18 September 1937, Page 6

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NO THIRD TERM FOR ROOSEVELT STATEMENT BY HIS MOTHER. PARIS, August 31. Mrs Sarah Roosevelt, mother of the President of the United States, said to-day that her son did riot desire a third term of office. “He feels that by the time lie has completed his present term, three years hence, he will have done what was expected of him,” she said. Mrs Roosevelt was invited to discuss rumours that the President is making plans-'to form a third party in American Federal politics, in readiness for the 1910 elections. “ I have never heard him mention the possibility,” she said. “No such idea could have originated with my son. He is so ardent a Democrat. ’ DIAMOND NECKLACE. PURCHASE BY MAHARAJA BOMBAY, August 30. Marie Antoinette’s diamond necklace, which was bought lor £15,000, has been brought to India by the Maharaja “because of its historic value and because it will be a valuable addition to my collection of Indian jewels dating back to Moghul times.” The necklace contains -13 stones, 13 of which are pearl drops. The Maharaja purchased the necklace with the original case containing the monogram of Marie /Antoinette. CRYSTAL PALACE DEBRIS. £30,000 AS SCRAP IRON. LONDON, August 18. All the scrap metal from the ruins of the Crystal Palace, estimated at he tween 10,000 and 15,000 tons, lias now been sold and is gradually being removed by lorry, although the last will not have gone until Christmas. “Practically all the metal has been i bought by steel manufacturers of Sheffield, Manchester and Wolverhampton,” said Sir Henry Backhand, tlie general manager of the palace, ‘ but 3500 ft. of steel water piping untouched by the fire has been bought by a South African resident for installation in a private house, and has already been shipped to him.” The palace trustees have obtained about £30,000' from the sale ot tinscrap, and, with money froiri insurance and other sources, now control about £200,000 in cash. The site is valued at about £500,000. A conference is shortly to be held with the Government, at which the trustees will suggest that part ol the site should be incorporated in the national scheme of physical training. fight with crocodile AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL. HAPPY SEQUEL TO MISTAKE. SYDNEY, Sept. 2. An aboriginal named Charlie, employed at King River, 20 miles irom Wyndham, Western Australia, fought a six-foot crocodile in the river and after a 1.0-minutes’ struggle, threw it on to the bank. There the crocodile continued tinlosing fight. Charlie wrapped stringy hark round its jaws, secured the back legs to the tail, and took the .crocodile home, where it was skinned. • Churlie had gone to the river hank to catch a baby crocodile for food, lie thought he saw one about three feet long and wont into the writer, hut when he. dived under it and got a grip, he found it was half grown. Charlie kept his grip and had to fight for his life. He suffered from badly-lacerat-ed hands. CIVILISATION’S IMPACT. NATIVES OF SOUTH AFRICA. JOHANNESBURG, Sept. 10. The establishment of a Rhodes Livingstone Institute of Central Africa studies in Livingstone i s the object of an appeal issued in South Africa. The institute i s intended as a contribution to the scientific efforts now being made to examine the effect upon native African society of the impact of the European civilisation, by tin- toimation in Africa itself of a centre where the problem of establishing permanent and satisfactory relations between natives and non-natives may form the subject of special study. The institute will have no policy of its own; it will he merely a research institute on the spot, to supplement the efforts of scientific organisation in Europe and elsewhere which are studying the same group of subjects.