Untitled

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 234, 1 September 1938, Page 5

Four British. Columbia youths drew rich dividends from a governmental plan to train homeless youiigalera in the technique of placer-mining. Two years after a course in a government training camp they sold several promising claims on Vancouver Island lor 35,000 dollars.

The twenty-fifth anniversary of the opening- of the Lotsehherg mountain railway was celebrated lately, when a party "of. journalists were the K'T* s the board of directors in a spe<’i« which took them from Hei no i rj .| u ,| Kamlesteg, and Brig. : l, ‘| jjCompany railway was built b.v i is highest at a cost of £4.000 ,000. Middle of point, 4,0801 t. up. 1 • | which is nine the Lotsehherg J miles long.

. i ■ ,„i„ vice in France, held . St,‘Cloud, one of the beauty spots of the immediate i. neigh- , i i Paris on Mav dl, iobo, v" s won by an Englishman James Moore. His sou came specially iron: I ,union to he present at the unveiling ol a tablet recalling the event. Among the notabilities present was anothei English veteran cycle champion of France of the end of last century, Mr 14. 0. Duncan..

Police-Constable Winter of Eastbourne, England, has been presented with a. cup for the most meritorious action of lastjjyear,. v. The fire engine was dashing round a'corner'on its way to a burning building when Fireman Taylor was flung 20 feet into the air from the vehicle. Constable Winter promptly caught him (it seems he is a noted cricketer) and the fireman was uninjured: