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Kaikoura Star, Volume LVII, Issue 48, 17 June 1937, Page 2

Mr J. Anderson Reilly, of Seddon, will conduct the services at St. Paul’s Presbyterian Chui oh on Sunday. A meeting of the committee of the A. and P. Association will be held on Saturday, June 26, at the Council Chambers, at 1.30 p.m. Kemal Ataturk, the President of Turkey, has given the nation his personal fortune of a million pounds. He informed the National Assembly that this includes goods, farms, and industrial enterprises. The Assembly enthusiastically voted its thanks and proclaimed Kemal as the “father of Turkey.” A Johannesburg message states: Anna Swancpoel has awakened at Rietfontoin Hospital after sleeping for 31 years, which is believed to be a record. She was 17 when she fell asleep and has a child’s mentality. Her legs are shrivelled owing to disuse and she will probably be bedridden for the remainder of her life.

The Government’s plans for the purchase of long-distance road freight services were to be considered at a conference of the. private owners affected to be held in Wellington yesterday. It was expected that there would be a large and representative attendance from all the main centres and towns affected by the proposed purchases. The weekly session of the Workers’ Educational Association took place last evening at tho residence of Mr and Mrs P. Bui'goyne, the subject under discussion being the play “Wild Decembers,” by Clemente Dane. Mrs E. R. McClatchy was tho leader. The next meeting will be held at the residence of Mr and Mrs R. T. Pope, when “Record Music by Elgai” will be discussed, Mrs AV. McD. Baker taking the load.

“Let them come. I will smile enigmatically and tell them nothing,” said Colonel Ksido, when told that a Japanese delegation was coming to ask him where ho had dumped in the harbour a Tsarist treasure of 4,000,000 gold roubles when the Japanese captured Port Arthur. Colonel Ksido, who is now living in retirement, is the only survivor of General Stocsscl’s staff, and the only man who knows where the treasure lies.

Some weeks ago a young man was arrested on the arrival at a New Zealand port of a vessel from Australia. The youth had stowed away, and was brought before a Magistrate, who gave him time to pay the fine for stealing free transport. The facts came to the knowledge of the local placement officer, who got in touch with the youth and then arranged for his employment on a farm. Because of an injury to his arm, ho had to leave this wonk, and so could not contribute anything towards the payment of the fine. He was arrested for non-payment, but at the placement officer’s suggestion the charge against him was held oyer pending a search for another position. The young man had given his trade as that of a french polisher, and within a few days he became a permanent member of the staff of a local firm, at a wage of £6 per week. In a letter to the placement officer he states: “I want to thank you for your kindness to me. When I came off the farm I was really miserable and low, and goodness knows how I would have ended.”

•‘Ration rum” for cough and cold Served at sea in “days of old.’’ Sailors aching, hoarse, and glum Soaked their hides in “ration rum.’’ Modern shellbacks sing and say, Tn their saucy, sailor way— Fore and aft. when colds befall. Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure for all I’’ 3 ’