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...Tinkle. From Auckland to Dunedin, Tuesday to Friday, New Zealanders hear the tinkle of the bell summoning House members from the lobby at precisely 2:30 p.m. Eight hours later-with a two-hour dinner intermission-they catch Speaker William E. Barnard's words ending the day's session. Although the broadcasts have long since lost their novelty, guesstimators swear that for big debates half the Dominion's radios pick up Australasia's most powerful station (2YA, 60 kilowatts...
Died. Andrew Graham Murray, Viscount Dunedin, 92, famed Scottish justice, intimate adviser of Edward VII and George V; in Edinburgh. He was Lord President of the Court of Session (the Scottish Supreme Court), a Lord of Appeal in the House of Lords. Besides, he claimed to have been the first Cambridge undergraduate to ride a bicycle, was an expert tennist, cricketer and fencer, remarried at 73, and celebrated his 90th birthday by throwing a cocktail party...
Hoary Viscount Dunedin, who sustains his 91 years with a Highlander's nonchalance, took some moving pictures of a bombed London building to take back for his northern friends to see. The venerable viscount, president of the Institute of Amateur Cinematographers, paid a fine of ten pounds, costs of five guineas, for breaking military rules...
...Onetime Senior Lord of Appeal Lord Dunedin celebrated his goth birthday with cocktails in his Sloane Street home. Guests viewed the film His Lordship took in the Black Forest (Germany) last summer...
Besides its California centres (San Jose, Fresno, Los Angeles, Riverside), Food Machinery has plants at Portland, Ore. (apples, pears, tomatoes), Dunedin, Fla. (oranges, grapefruit), Massillon, Ohio (pumps), Lansing, Mich, (sprayers, motor products) and Hoopeston, Ill. (corn-canning). At Hoopeston was developed a can-filling machine, designed for corn, but also used by oil companies in their development of the market for canned motor...