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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16797, 9 November 1928, Page 13

HERE AND THERE

(P.A. Messages)

Regarding the award of the Darwin medal to Dr. L. Cockayne, the medal, which is accompanied- by :l grant ol £IOO, is given biennially in reward of work of acknowledged distinction, especially in biology, dii the field' in which Darwin himself labored. .File' awaid may bo either to a British subject or foreigner, and without distinction of sex. The Darwin mbdal lias been awarded among others, to Alfred Russell Wallace, 1890; Sir J. D. Hooker, 1892; T. 11. Huxley, 1894; Ernest Haeckel, 1900; Francis Galton, 1902; William Bateson, 1904; August Weismann, 1908; Francis Darwin, 1912; Yves Delagc, 1916; Tlios. H. Morgan, 1924; Duckinfield Henry Scott, 1926. Dr. Cockayne’s is the twentieth medal. Glorious weather prevailed for People’s Day at the Christchurch A. and I*. Show, and thousands attended from all over Canterbury, as well as hundreds of visitors from other parts, who are taking part in Carnival Week.

Charles Pollard Brown, a married man with two children, a resident of Taradale. was found to-day with liis throat cut - There was a razor beside the body. No reason can be ascribed for the tragedy, The selling of ice creams from a cart on Sundays 'with people taking them off and eating them is illegal, according to Mr. E. Page, S.M., who, in Wellington to-day, imposed a fine of £1 and cOsts on George R. Millard, who had been following this system for three years at Maritai, and says the practice has obtained to his knowledge for 20 years. The magistrate remarked that apparently it would be legal for defendant to sell from a cart if lie had an awning and the ice creams were eaten beneath it. Mr. Platts, S.M., delivered reserved judgment in Thames to-day in the Turua affiliation case, Elvin v. Schmidt, in which he said the defence was regrettable for the amount of slander and perjury. lie was satisfied that the defendant, Laurie Schmidt, -and a witness had sav'ohi falsely when attempting to blacken ■the girl’s character. Mr. Platts entered judgment for 15/- a week, plus back maintenance and birth expenses. Security for appeal was fixed at £35.