Dominion News

Greymouth Evening Star, 17 August 1949, Page 2

Dominion News

Poliomyelitis Case The first case of poliomyelitis in its district since May 11 has been reported to the Health Department in Christchurch. The patient, a boy aged 14 years, of Waddington, in the Malvern County, was admitted to the Christchurch Hospital yesterday. He has been diagnosed as a positive case.

Plenty Of Bachelors Mustering was a job for bachelors, said the Minister of Agriculture (Mr E. L. Cullen) in the House of Representatives yesterday. ' It always had been, but there were still plenty of bachelors left in this country. The Minister of Health (Miss M. B. Howard): Where are they?.,—(P.A.) The Roskill Seat

Mr J. B. Kennedy has announced that he will contest the Roskill seat at the General Election on behalf of the New Zealand Democratic Liberal Party, of which he is the leader and organiser. He said the party was revived at a meeting in Auckland during the ; week-end.-— (JP.A.)

Ultra-violet Rays A clause making it unlawful for anyone not a physiotherapist, a registered nurse, or the holder of a certificate issued by the proposed Physiotherapy Board to administer ultraviolet light has been deleted from the Physiotherapy Bill by the Public Health Committee of the House of Representatives. The committee’s decision was reported to the House yesterday by its chairman, Mr W. T. Central).— (P.A.)

Wellington Zoo Births A young lioness has given birth to a cub, four kangaroos, are carrying young in their pouches, two emus are sitting for the first time for seven years, and five wallabies are proud mothers at the Wellington Zoo. The first lion cub born at Wellington for at least 15 years is 12 inches long, nose to tail. There is some doubt whether the emu eggs are fertile as they are the first clutches from the particular birds. One is disinterested in motherhood, so the other is doing all the sitting. Of four young female kangaroos two are hopping in and out of their mothers’ pouches.—(P.A.)

State Contracts The use of cost plus contracts had not ceased with the war, and in .some cases want of Ministerial or Treasury approval and other circumstances had caused the Audit Office some concern, reported the Auditor-General (Mr J. P. Rutherford) to the House of Representatives yesterday. For instance, the milk division of the Marketing Department had let some cost plus contracts for building construction and for the installation of machinery in milk treatment stations which appeared to lack desirable authority. After Audit Office representations it was agreed that future work should be let for fixed prices where possible and that cost plus contracts, if they could not be avoided, should be submitted to a Minister for approval.—(P.A.)

Scholarships In Forestry Three young New Zealand science graduates, Messrs G. M. O’Neill, who was educated at the Marist Brothers School, Invercargill, and Otago University, P. J. McKelvey, who was educated at Waitaki Boys’ High School and Canterbury University College, and J. W. Levy, who was educated at the Westport Technical College and Victoria University College, will leave Wellington tomorrow by the Wanganella to take up scholarships in forestry at Edinburgh University. The scholarships have, been granted by the New Zealand Forest Service.—(P.A.)