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Taranaki Daily News, 22 June 1935, Page 13 (Supplement)

Formed 'in 1880, Balmain Bowling Club is the oldest in Australia. Wally Weekes is the oldest footballer ir the world. Sixty-four years of age, he plays for Bondi every Sunday. A world endurance record is claimed , by an Indian named Roy, who cycled continuously for 61hrs. 15m. 35., covering 420 miles 612 J yards. Dr. Tesla has invented a new kind of waterless bath. The idea is by means of electricity to make you cleaner than any modern bath possibly can. The Gold Medal for Courage was pinned by the Minister of the Interior on the brest of a dead Paris policeman, killed in an election riot. Miss Zoe Atkins, author of the play, "The Greeks had a Word for It,” has been given the annual Pulitzer Award for Drama on account of* her play, "The Old Maid?’ Two Polish smugglers were shot dead by German Customs officials when about 15 men were surprised in the act of taking young pigs in sacks across the frontier. Polish people must take a bath at least once a month whether they .need it or not. The Polish Government is introducing a law under which every inhabitant of the country will be! compelled to take at least one bath a month. What is more, he must have a card stamped to prove it. With finger-tips 6n a tiny instrument called a teletactor, Harry Goddard, a deaf youth, carried on a conversation with his teacher, audible to a room full of listeners at Chicago. He. has learned to feel words by vibration in the instrument