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The progress of Mr D. V. : land settlement scheme in the Waikato was raised by Mr G. L. Taylor, president of the Auckland Rotary Club, at the club's luncheon this week. Mr Taylor, with other representatives of the club and of the Chamber of Commerce, visited the farms under Mr Bryant's control during the week-end. "We were very much taken with the scientific and capable management of the work that is being done," said MiTaylor, "and we felt that if this is not a financial success, if they are not able to develop farms under that scheme, on an economic basis, then it will not pay to bring in any unimproved land in New Zealand. MiBryant is particularly energetic and active, and his managers are very successful farmers." i ' Among the major disease plagues of the world 14 practically could be wiped out of existence if scientific knowledge were put into practice, according to Dr. Watson Davis in the "Advance of Science." The 14 diseases are smallpox, diphtheria, yellow fever, malaria, typhoid fever, scurvy, beriberi, pellagra, rickets, bookworm disease, rabies, tetanus and tularemia. Among the diseases which Dr. Davis finds not yet "conquered" are cancer, pneumonia, bubonic plague, cholera, measles, leprosy, encephalitis, influenza, infantile paralysis, typhus fever, meningococci meningitis, tuberculosis, arthritis, scarlet fever, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, undulant fever, and psittacosis, or parrot fever.