CLEMENT WRAGGE.
In addition to the ordinary entertainment given by Mr Wragge in the various towns he' visits the history of radium, and its remarkable properties are explained to the ■audience, who are given an opportunity of seeing- and handling this marvel, and having 'its many properties described. Mr Wragge, who has travelled to many parts of the world since he gave his previous eeries of entorlainm-&nls 'in New Zealand, has returned -well provided with knowledge or the latest c'eveloprn-ents in those branches ot science he has made familiar a,rxl attractive to t.he public. Radium, the maryeJlou3 product o f pitch-blend' 3, wlrc'i has upset <?o roa<ny esta.blis.he4 £c:entifi c theories,- and a*beolutelv ohaaged our idea 3 regarding the source cf • tho sun's energy has been fam-iJiar rencagh in -hamo for the last few veais. , But this is <Jmj fir^fc opportunity the New Zealand public have* ftact ox actually witnes^sing- th-e wonderful viplet raysoi, t-his strange.' subitahce. ■ jtfr VX'ragpras^naque method of «nier+a jr. inch's .•udienccn .nakes >th«n grip the salient noin^ though or oodree, they a .re deficient in
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Otago Witness, Issue 2883, 23 June 1909, Page 77
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179CLEMENT WRAGGE. Otago Witness, Issue 2883, 23 June 1909, Page 77
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