AUSTRALIAN NEWS
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SYDNEY, This Day. Mr J. F. Stokes, ethnologist of the Bishop Museum at Honolulu, formerly a resident of Newcastle, says there is no false pride about youths at American colleges. It is no uncommon thing to find students acting as waiters and performing other odd jobs in order to pay Iheir way. They lost no caste hut wore admired. He would welcome an infusion of this American spirit in. Australia* The Anglican Synod carried a motion against. Sunday sport, rejecting an amendment iu favour of reasonable physiagj recreation.
Owing to slackness of trade one- third of the Commonwealth ships are idle, but it is expected all will bo commissioned when the shipping of the next wheat crop begins for all State pools. Tlie Harbour Bridge Bill will ho amended to provide that tenders may bo submitted for an arch bridge instead of a cantilever. It is expected the work will not be completed for eight years. The Assembly carried the second reading of the Bill by forty votes to twentyfive.
At the inquest on Aaron Emanuel, of Auckland, whose body was found floating off Coogee, the coroner recorded an open verdict, stating that however ho met his death he was satisfied that deceased did not intentionally take his own life. Deceased’s widow gave evidence .that he suffered from insomnia, and sometimes had fainting fits. He left property in New Zealand worth £SOOO, '■
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 12 October 1922, Page 5
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242AUSTRALIAN NEWS Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 12 October 1922, Page 5
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