jlf the mission , of Mr \V. D. Lysnar throughout the Dominion has done nothing «lse j-.it has oaused producers .to think* • When the Association is, in' full Swing, liiowever, and its advantages 'become known, wa shall expecit to see n revolution m rour produce trade, 1 *and a corresponding increase in' the wealth of the Dominion .'-f^Wairaxapa: Age. : The world's highest' Waterfall, which makeS Niagara ldok like a, tiny stream, was described by *Dr Percy Randall m alecture at the 'West Indian Committee Rooms, London, last month. Tins ik Kaietur, or "Old Man's /Fall;" on the Potoro River, m British Guiana : . It'is 822 feet high, or about five times as high a~s Niagara. Its , name is derived from the fact that the .natives, when their men became too old to work, set thorn adrift above the falls.. Dr Howard A. Knox, surgeon' of the United States , Public Health Service at Ellis Island, says that death,Jdoes not hurt and that the world, ought not to take it so seriously. ~ "Fear of death," he states, "is simply a. nervous disease. Tho dying Are as little conscious of the transition from life t(> death as the w^ttry ale consqlbilij of going to . sleep. Illness m^ybe p'ainfulj'but^its' cessation never." • Dr. l&ibx Iblames unthinking persons who often implant m the childish mind a movbid iear of death, Avhich is generally permanent.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 13063, 1 May 1913, Page 4
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