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Hokitika Guardian, 22 September 1937, Page 2

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LONDON STORES SYDNEY' September 20. London was 16 years behind America, and well behind Sydney, in store merchandise display, said Mr lb G. Grace, of Grace Urns., who returned by the Mariposa from a world tour yesterday. Many of the large London stores still put up shutters on their display windows at 7 p.m., he said. The Australian exhibit at the Paris Exposition was no worse than that of the other Dominions. Doth the English and Dominion exhibits were poor.

The English exhibit consisted mainly of a cardboard model of Mr Neville Chamberlain fishing, and some sporting goods. Mr Grace studied merchandising in, Many’s, the largest New York store, which he said had an annual turnover of more than £25,000,000. FELL DOWN WELL MELBOURNE, September 20. Still unconscious after he had tallen 100 foot down a well at Yabba South, to-day. Jack Rail, aged 39, a bore contractor, of Corowa (New South Wales), was admitted to hospital in a critical condition.

Ball was putting down a bore casing in the well and was being lowered on a bosun’s chair from a windlass when the roue came undone. Ball had an arm torn off as he fell. Ho broke a leg and sustained head injuries and severe shock. PLANE CRASH TORONTO. September 20. A cabin plane crashed into Lake Erie, about half a mile south of Point Poole. early to-dav. Coastguards saw the crash, and have been trying, so f;Tr without success, to raise the ijdano. Its identity lias not been established, arid the number of passengers aboard is not known. In the meantime, a rescue party is carrying tlie dead or wounded four occupants of another crashed plane 1 lire ugh wild country to Moore Creek (Alaska). Until the party reaches. Moore Creek the fate of the pilot and throe passengers, one of whom is a woman, cannot lie learned.