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Newspaper
Gloucester Advocate
Location
Gloucester, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Apr 01, 1938
Page
1
The article argues that savings accounts suit men as well as women and children, noting business men with wide payment areas can use cheque accounts, but savings accounts aid money accumulation and are not undignified while earning interest on idle funds.
The Bank of New South Wales weighs Sir Walter Kinnear’s plan for compulsory contributory health insurance with employer and worker contributions plus state support. It suggests adapting the English model to Australian conditions, favoring local area consolidation of friendly societies and extending benefits to dependants for a fairer social system.
Dundee surgeon Mr. Francis R. Brown performed a remarkable operation in the infirmary on a 50 year old man with prolonged angina pectoris. Fatty tissue from the intestines was attached to the heart to improve blood supply and the patient is recovering well. The method originated from experiments by Mr. Laurence O Shaughnessy in London with greyhounds.
A women’s paper suggests lawn as a preferred material for sun-bathing costumes. The note emphasizes cutting the outfits short, as appropriate for the season.
The Muswellbrook inquest found Henry Blyth died from tetanus likely contracted from a rabbit scratch on his hand. Coroner Mr W T Sea land ruled death accidental and linked to the wound received while removing a rabbit from a trap at Brentwood Hospital.
Edward Binney, a station hand at Toobesh Lucksall, broke his leg when a horse kicked him. He crawled two miles on hands and knees in four hours to reach the homestead and phone for a doctor. An ambulance then took him to De Goondiwindi Hospital.
In Leeds Quarter Sessions Harry Firth, 4 joiner of Lends, was sentenced to three years penal servitude for housebreaking and theft. Forensic lab results from Nottingham linked him to two other break ins. overcoat fibers and wood fragments matched. The Recorder noted limited leniency for past conduct.
A Tokyo report describes Mount Mihara on Oshima Island as a magnet for suicide attempts with over 800 people last year, drawing sightseers and prompting barriers and police supervision. A shipping company added an extra boat to handle crowds despite safety efforts.
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