LOCAL AND GENERAL

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 105, 30 October 1925, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

■ A Southern newspaper reports tha.t .there is every prospect of a mining revival in- the Buller and Grey districts now that tho cost of requirements is coming back to normal. Mining activities are anticipated in the Mokihinui district, where good leads of quartz metal have been traced.

Stones arc valuable at Onehunga (states the "Now Zealand Herald"). Fifty or sixty, years ago thoy were considered a nuisance, and the early settlers gathered up into huge piles all that they could not utilise in building the stone walls which are such a distinctive feature in tsie neighbourhood of the volcanic areas round Auckland. Modern road construction lias brought a decided change, and tho old walls are now considered o£ such value for voading purposes that at a recent meeting of the Onehunga Borough Council it was decided to give a resident the necessary posts and fencing wire to replace a stone wall which was required for crushing. A new use for deep X-ray treatment through an open wound in a case where the surgeon decided it was too dangerous to proceed with an operation was reported by Dr. P. C. Fenwick to the North Canterbury Hospital Board ut Christchurch. Dr. A. S. Moody, of Dunedin, to whom the subject waa mentioned (states "The Post's" Dunedin correspondent), said he thought such an operation quite a feasible thing. He did not, however, attach too much importance to it. Probably the case referred to was a localised growth. Danger to the slur could be obviated to a great extent by the use of a harder ray. Hard radium rays and hard X-rays had practically the same action. That, he thought, was what Dr. Feuwick was referring to. He thought a. good radiologist could protect the skir sufficiently to treat any growth at any distance from the surface. Dr. C. C. Anderson, radiologist at Dunedin Hospital, stated that no such operation had been performed locally, nor was it likely to ho' attempted until a new and more powerful X-ray plant was in position in the new buildings to be erected. No doubt the Christchurch case- was the first of its kind to be dealt with in such a way. The matter opened up a field for investigation, but up lo the present very little had been done in regard to such ;i method of treatment, and lie did not attach very nnu'li importance to it.

Regulations are gazetted in regard to the Government Stores Control Board, which is to consist of the Minister of Public Works, chairman of the Hallway Board, Undcr-Sccretary of Public Works, and the Secretary of the .Postal Department. Au advisory committee is also to be appointed comprising tho Comptroller of Stores, and the stores managers of the Public Works and Postal Departments.

Duncdin usually provides permanent employment for G()0 carpenters, but at prcHont there are 800 members of that branch of the union. The Exhibition, of course, accounts for the extra ISOO. The secretary of the union think!) thai; the work of the Kxhibition will last until the end of next month, ruid thyit about 200 men will haves to look for work elsewhere. A largo number of carpenters will probably return to tho North.

Under the will of the late John Bandcen, of Hampden, Otago, the following chiiriLiiblu bequests are made: Dr. Barnardo 's llomca, London, £500; Presbyterian Social Service Association, for the benefit of orphana.gns under its control in Dunedin, si 200; Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, Aberdeen, £200; Salvation Army, Wellington, £200. The residue of the estate, amounting to approximately £2700, is left to the Foreign Missions Committee of the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand. Tho Public Trustee is executor and trustee of the will.