HATS OFF.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XVI, Issue 150, 24 April 1914, Page 4

HATS OFF.

TO GRENFELL OF LABRADOR. A remarkable man in evening dress stepped on the platform to deliver a lecture at the Queen's Hall on -February "2(3. He Avas "Grenfell of Labrador"—Dr "VV. J. Grenfell, the London Hospital surgeon, who, putting aside the prospect of a'distinguished, career in his profession, went to an Arctic climate to work among a depilate people. He spoke to a great audience for an hour and a-half, and the audience learnt everything about Labrador and its people—everything except about Dr Grenfell. Quito unwittingly he~showed the tremendous significant e of his work Avhen ho described hoAV some fishermen rescued him from death. He had fallen into the ice and they had been searching for him for hours, and at last they found him. "They Avere so glad that they Avept, did these fishermep." It was the introduction of reindeer that had made it possible for the people to live in the interior of Mie coiuntry. The 250 reindeer ho originally imported had increased to a. thousand. But they had also iin;- = ported diseases that were previously unknown to the natives. They had influenza and in less than a, week they had 30 dead Eskimos, and it was difficult to. find enough soil t&.bury them in. "