NEWS OF THE DAY

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 111, 12 May 1937, Page 8

NEWS OF THE DAY

Band Recital in Rain. . "It is quite evident that the people of Auckland are passionately iond of music when they remain out in the rain for so long to hear a band recital," said the conductor of the Auckland Artillery Band, Captain G. Buckley, on Sunday evening, commenting on the attendance at the Auckland Domain on Sunday afternoon, when a recital was given by the band (reports the "New Zealand Herald"). The programme had just started when rain commenced to fall, but in spite of this the majority of the crowd assembled to hear the recital stayed on until the last number had been played. A Missionary Centenary. January next will witness the centenary of the arrival in New Zealand of the first Homan Catholic Mission. This was headed by Bishop John Baptist Francis Pompallier, who landed at Hokianga, in North Auckland, on January 10, 1838. In connection with the celebration of the centenary,-. a pastoral letter from the Metropolitan, his Grace Archbishop O'Shea, has been addressed to the clergy of New Zealand. _ *- Pensions Offices. The increase in the population of the North Island, establishment of invalidity pensions, and the extension of the provisions of the law relating to old age and other civil pensions, have increased the work of the branch offices of the Pensions Department. The Minister of Pensions (the Hon. W. E. Parry) stated last evening that the extent of the increase of the work of the Department had made it necessary to rearrange the district boundaries and to establish two new branch offices. The new offices would be at Whangarei and New Plymouth. An Early Court. This morning's sitting of the Magistrate's Court, Wellington, which was taken at 9 a.m., .occupied approximately two minutes. The only case before the Court was .that of a young man charged with a breach of a maintenance order. He was remandea pending advice from Napier. Mr. E. D. Mosley, S.M., was on the Bench, and Sub-In-spector C. E. Roach prosecuted. An unusual feature was that the usual "gallery" was absent. The orderly's cry of "Silence"" had an unusual sound in a courtroom empty of spectators. Infectious Diseases. During the week ended on Monday last forty-three cases of infectious disease were notified to the Wellington district office of the Health Department. A total of six deaths for the district was also notified. In • the Wanganui-Horowhenua district there was one death from tuberculosis and one from poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis), and in both the Central Wellington and Nelson-Marlborough areas there were two deaths from tuberculosis. In the> Wanganui-Horowhenua area there were seven notifications of poliomyelitis, four of diphtheria, two of tuberculosis, and one each of scarlet fever and hydatids. The WairarapaHawke's Bay area showed four cases of tuberculosis, three each of scarlet fever and poliomyelitis, and one of enteric fever. Of a total of 14 cases notified in Central Wellington, eight were of poliomyelitis, four of tuberculosis, and one each of puerperal fever and eclampsia. In Nelson-Marlborough there was tone notification each of tuberculosis, poliomyelitis* and eclampsia. A total of 19 cases of poliomyelitis was notified in the district during the '\veek, an increase of two on the previous week.