CHARITY ABROAD.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 104, 4 May 1922, Page 4

CHARITY ABROAD.

To the saying that charity begins at j home there is a retort thnt the charity i that begins there generally ends there.; ' At any rate, it may be said that the] saving, like many others, is capable of i ' abU6<>. Two recent incidents bearing on : : the question are the subject of an j ! editorial in the Dimedin "Star" with ' which we find ourselves in sympathy, j One is the resolution of the Soldiers' j ' Mothers' League in Auckland objecting j to the allocation of any portion of the j 1 proceeds of "Poppy Day' , to objects j ' beyond New Zealand, and to the sale in j ' the Dominion in commemoration of our ; ' dead of flowers made outside the British j 1 Empire. Aβ the Dunedin paper ?aye, it. - j ia hard to find fault with any resolution | ' passed by the mothers of soldiers, but | ' these poppies were made in France by . : 1 French widows and orphans. Are we to 1 I erudse the widows and children of men 5 who fought the good fight by the side o; j » our own son; ar.d brothers and husbands j ' ihe quarter of the proceeds of these sales | - allotted to them? The second matter is j 1 the disapproval expressed by the Canter- • ? bury College students of the executive's - action in voting £10 to the Central i European Students' Relief Fund. The j r ground for thTs disapproval was credit- I i able, that there were returned soldiers r who had had to cut short their Univert sity studies for lack of money. Charity I i ehotild begin at home. So it should, 3 but should it end there? Whatever distress there is among University student* |

in New Zealand cannot be compared with conditions among the same class in Central Europe. It is gooil to learn that this vetoed vote of £10 has been made up privately by the students of Canterbury College. Such a contribution is a very practical example of international brotherhood. Xew Zealand has been repeatedly called upon to relieve distress in other countries, and it has responded to every call. That it never has occasion to ask for help from abroad is part of its good fortune. Times are not co good as they were, and our own needs naturally have preference, but the fact that money can be found for Continental students and starving Russians —however email it may amount to in the aggregate —is proof that charity in Xew Zealand is not entirely home-keeping, and no oue should wish that it: were.

Seven hundred and eighty-one rats hnve been delivered to the Newmarket Borough Council to date at a total cost to the council of £9 15/3. This fact was disclosed by the Mayor in his annual report. The council's activities in the direction of health precaution, it was stated, had resulted in the destruction of a large mimVr of rodents, and together with the number above mentioned at least 1500 have been destroyed during the past six months. A controversy is proceeding in Wellington between the Civic League and the City Council's Milk Committee. It appeare that the latter recently ordered J milk bottles and machinery from America, and flic League expresses regret that Die order did not go to Britain. The chairman of the committee has replied that the order \v;k only sent to America, after the fullest inquiry through Mis Majesty's Trad? Conmiisfioner. v. ho had considerable correspondence with liritish manufacturers on the. subject. The Government Insurance Department amalgamation is completed as from Monday. Some time ago the union of the National Provident Fund. Friendly Societies, and Public Service Superannuation Fund Departments with the Government L : fe Insurance was effected, and now the State Fire Insurance Office conscs into the group. Mr. Kobiefion, who was manager of the State Fire Office, retired on superannuation last month, and the general managership of the oiliofi has been taken over by Mr. J. H. Richardson. Commissioner of the Government Life Insurance Department. Mr. .7. FT. Jerram retains his position as deputy-general manager and local manager of tlio Fire Insurance branch. Representatives of the Xew Zealand Institute from Wellington and Auckland have arranged to pay a visit to the, slopes tif Ruitpeha and Tongariro on Friday in order to investigate the complaints that have been made concerning the tree-cutting operations of the Prison? Department. Some time ago the Prisons Department erected a sawmill in the bush below Ruapehu. and it hne since cut out a large quantity of timber. The operations are still proceeding, and visitors to the district have protested that the department, is cutting biieh that ought to be retained as permanent forest. They point out that serious flooding in I the lower reaches of the rivers is one.of the penalties that will have to be paid in the future if the clearing of the bush around the mountains is carried too far. A correspondent supplies us with a clipping from an old scrap book that I deals with the use of yeast an a preventive and for treatment of such diseases as typhoid. The experiences related in the paragraph .-ire Australian. The J writer says: "A member of my family whs seized with typhoid, and yeast was administered with splendid results. At the same time it was given to every other j member of the household as a preventive.

and successfully so. I - or gome years the epidemics of diphtheria, scarlet fever, typhoid, black measles, etc.. occurred first in the capital, Melbourne, thence spreading to the country districts. Upon the outbreak of these diseases as much sulphur as could be held on a threepenny piece was given to each member of the family in the morning, and a wineglass of yeast (new) each day at midday: half doses to the children. Two silk baps containing camphor were placed on the

chest and hack of each, and by the time the epidemic arrived we were ready for it. In diphtheria, on the loft of us. j eight children had died and wore buried !in one week; on the other side, five. We I escaped. In typhoid <.ne only was ati tacked. Jn black measles hundreds died •in the district. We ngnin escaped: and jno on. We carefully kept to vegetarian diet, and boiled all milk before using." A pathetic story comes from an outlying district."' says the. Ueraldine correspondent of the "Lyttelton Times." "Mrs. W. Leonard, of beautiful Valley, took her three little children on a visit to a neighbour who live* en the opposite I side of the Opuha River, and during the day the children of the two families were playing in the; orchard. On Mr.-. I Leonard calling to them the youngest. 'nn engaging little fellow who had not long passed his second birthday, was missing. From inquiri;'.» it appeared that the little boy had left the others, i saying he was going to his daddy. The I anxious mother and her friends made j diligent sear.-h in which the neighbours j joined later, and this was kept up all I night without avail. The next after- | noon the 'body of (!:■• child was found ] washed up on a spit in lh<» river. Kvij dently the little fellow had made ft I straight line for his home, and had ' walked in to the river at a point where !it was deep and ran swiftiv."' ! A writer in the "Ot.igo Times," d:s- ---! cussing Hie subject of goitre, expresses : concern at the prevalence of the disease. jln Switzerland, he says, it was shown I that thedii-eii.se was caused through the ' lack of certain chemicals in the food, and it was that this lack j should be introduce:! to everyone alike jby treating .ill salt used in the country. ; T-Fe asVs: Do y<"i ii"i think that it is ■high time some drastic option was taken ' here. I am neither a medical man nor 1 a chemist, but that goitre can be eu;-c:l j I for one have no doubt, since both my I wife and myself were suocer.sfully ! treated by an Auckland ehnnjist. But the position remains thai those who will avail vhem*elv-e> of successful treatment are :n the minority, and tile GovI ,-rnment sluiihl !ic shown thnt i<. is iv.>s- | siblc to pi.-.'ver.t the spread of the idkea-e in this generation and to pre- ! vent its occurrence the generation to ! come."

j Mr. S. U. Cole, who iids boon appointed distributing manager to the Municipal Milk Department in Wellington, took jup lii< duties on Monday. Hi* fir-it ta*k will he to organise the milk delivery i for the whole of the city, in view of the City Council taking full control nn July 8. The vfnjors' plants are net to Ibe taken over, as t'lio veh'c'.c: they I employ are unsuitable for thn dtlivury of bottled rai!k in crates. Xvw t-arts arc bciiifr built for tN; pnrpoce a! the Mnnt I works. 1

Another tilt at the moribund condition of the Marine Boroughs Association was indulged in at ! the Birkenhead Council last night by Mr. Walton, who inquired if the resolution passed at the previous meeting had the desired effect of having that body called together to deal with business. The town clerk said he had communicated by telephone that day in an endeavour to elicit something definite, and was informed that the chairman of the board was making arrangements with other Mayors to have a meeting, 'but had been unsuccessful so far. Mr. Fred Mouat, a New Zealander who has been engaged in the dredging inI ilustry 011 the Gold Coast of Africa, for i the last fifteen years, is at present in J Palmerston North. In conversation with la representative of the 'Manawatu Times," Mr. Mouat stated that there : are great possibilities for the future mi : the Gold Coast, Which is teeming with, minerals, and produces cocoa, cotton,; nuts, etc.. in abundance. Disease is prevalent and only Europeans of sound constitution can endure- tlie heat for a.| lengthy period. Mo»t of the work is donej by tin* blacks, who carry loade for long distances. Stock cannot exist on account, lof a poisonous fly. Monkeys and big game are numerous in the interior. Huge profits have been made in recent years j !by one or two enterprising men whoj ' have beon shipping mahogany timber to the United States. A Southland farmer has reason to thank the slump for a piece of good fortune. Caught in the grip of falling ; pricee, he was forced to watch the ! seizure of every hoof of stock upon his farm, but instead of following the ex-i

I ample of many others and letting the; •j farm bo sold up also, he hung on in the •hope that the Government would come to !iis assistance, and as he waited the 'igraes grew on hie stockless farm. He paid no heed to t'hie till his attention was drawn to the fact that the grass • feed mig-ht be marketable, and he began. to make investigations, whh the result; I that ho Sound that the whole of his I } land prior io hie purchase had been: i sown in fescue, which had recently risen! ;in value from Gd to 1/4 per lb. In 'haste,; with the help of his neighbours' teams; and inipicments. he 'harvested his crop, j and from the eale of the seed obtained , 1 the jjandeomc return of £4000. With I £3000 he purchased the freehold of 'his i land, and had £1000 left for etoeking . purpose*. '■■ Arrangements w«re completed by the I . Birkenhead Council last night to eupj port the ninety-one objections lodged ; !by authority of tho council at to- i '■ morrow? sitting of the Assessment j ! Court. The borough rates on the unim- ■ proved value, and the Government valu--1 -uion has to he adopted for this pur- j I po?e. The unimproved value of land, I I returned by the Government valuer, ; •is £120,843. whereas the council's con- j j tention nf the ninety-one instances cited j j would almost double this valuation, and j bring the total to £243,279, or an increase of 1113,434. Accelerated palpitation of the heart lis an affliction which grips witnesses; 'in Court, stated Dr. Ewart G. Ander-[ ■son in the Arbitration Court at Wei-. lington. He was asked by Air. Jus-j (ice Krazer if examination by a strange j •doctor would cause a patient's heart to j gallop, and he answered "'Yes. un-j, doubto.dly." He volunteered the infor-j i marion that Wing in the witness stand i I would have a similar effect, and that;, i his own pu!#G was probably going at, about 100. The pulse of the plaintiff: in the oa?e (Shorter v. the Shaw, Savill, and Albion S.S. Co., Ltd.) was examined,', and registered 116 to the minute. i I In t'.ie course of !hc 'hearing of the ' j Wellington private 'hotel workers dis-| i puto before the Conciliation Council' I yesterday, five question arose as to giv- . ing equai pay for men and women per-| I forming similar duties. In support of | i the rkim of the workers' union, it wae i

urged that women in some eases per-j formed the duties even more efficiently] i than male employees, especially duties in| j connection with the kitchen, such as I cooking. On the other side, it was con-1 tended that eutfh instances were not common, and. besides, there were other reasons which must be plain to all why I there should be differentiation. The ■question was referred to the Arbitration! I Court for settlement. I A daring burglary i.s reported to have' occurred at Aramoho, Wanganui, on! (Tuesday night, when Mr. E. Hallijjan'sj j residence was entered. While one of the i (XLupants of tJje house was playin e tho I piano the burglar made his entry through ! a bedroom window, and then locked the door. This move enabled him to maka good hU escape in the event of being I disturbed. When Mr. Halligan'went to I! he room at 7 p.m. he was surprised to j find the door locked on the inside. On gaining admittance by the window he! j found that a couple of drawers had been j ran-acked and jewellery to the value ofj : between £30 and £40* taken. An open private cheque us abo missing. | 1 A sacred concert was held in the ' ■Foresters' Hall, Birkenhead, on the evening of Anzac Day, the collection being in aid of a ivar memorial -for Birkenhead. This wa.s contrary to the wishes of the Borough Council, which decided last night to prosecute those responsible, the council not having authorised this entertainment. It was pointed out the legal position was that Anzac Day was a Sunday, but morally it was more "holier than a Sunday to the j people of the Doiv.-'.nion. I "1 thi;i!< that generally the present ' markets for our exports are extremely encouraging,"' said Mr. W. fi. Foster at j tiio New Zealand Investment, Mortgage, , nnd Uepesit Company's meeting in Wellington on Tuesday, "and if European ! matters were once more satisfactorily i settled, new fields tor our produce would ' quiikly be available, and it is even conceivabie that a boom may result earlier . tiup.i expected."