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New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11650, 15 October 1923, Page 3

M.P.A. writes to the “Bulletin” from New York:—Harry Quealy, remembered m Australia as a juvenile with the Pollards and later as a character actor in various shows, is in hospital suffering from a stroke. Harry was playing the down-and-out Australian in “Pain, the biggest money-spinner in New York these days, and was just making his final exit when the seizure happened. He was taken to n hospital, and for weeks could not even n. ako himself understood. .Latest reports are not encouniging; it is doubtful if he will ever return to the* | boards. And he had signed ft contract for two years. Quea'y was n jonngster with ti e Mo-itague-Turner Opera Co. j when “Daddy” Caron conducted for the ; 6wect-\oiced Annis. 1 Over 300 blind people are being trained las pardoners by the “Guild of Blind Gardeners’ (.Eng.), which was founded I by a Indy, herself sightless, who was ft keen gardener. Thirteen million motor vehicles in the Cnlted Stales will need .six billion gallons of gnsolino this year. A tendency to curtail the Bible lessons in the churches was referred to by the Rev. Fraaer Barton at the meeting of the Auckland Presbytery. Mr Barton eaid that there wits a growing tendency to cut one lesson out. “The Bible is little read in the home to-day,” he said, “therefore I feel the greater need for the lessons not being curtailed in our churches.”