SCIENCE CONGRESS.
INTERESTING MATTERS DISCUSSED.
Electric Telegraph—Press Association Copyright. (Australian-N.Z. Cable Association.) (Received this day at 10.10 a.m.) Sydney, This Day. The Science Congress decided to form an Australasian Public Health Association with the object of promoting public and personal health. Professor Sir Baldwin Spencer in a paper on the Australian blacks, explained that it was tile duty of certain relatives to cat the corpses of the dead, in the belief that they thus absorbed the virtues of the departed. Onlookers regarded it as cannibalism. but the practice was actually one of ceremonial origin. Professor David Orr in a pa per on the “Romance of the lee,” said that probably the greatest coal mine in the world was in the Antarctic. It was certainly a mile in length and the thickest scam was- seven feet.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 2679, 15 January 1921, Page 6
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