LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 13 June 1928, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

At Tokaora last night Mr C. Dickie, addressed a forge attendance of farmers on the .subject of “Bobby” calves. It was agreed to either form a pool or to come in with the larger (scheme. Tin? meeting was most enthusiastic. Ait a general meeting of the Stratford Acclimatisation Society yesterday it was decided to place orders for 1(10.000 brown and 10,000 rainbow trout eyed ova.

The Farmers.’ Co-op. annual general meeting will take place on Thursday next at 11 a.m. on the Foresters’ Hall. Hawera.

The following additional members of the Ist Hawera Company of Girl Guides gained .their service stars during the year and were presented with them a.t the birthday celebrations on Saturday evening: J. Downey, E. Smith, J. Shepherd, H. Good, Y. Walsdorf, and I. Robertson. At the conclusion of lengthy evidence in affiliation proceedings taken in the Hawera Court yesterday by on unmarried woman residing at Eltham, Thomas Henry Edgecombe was adjudged the father of an illegitimate child and was ordered to pay £25 lie 6d medical expenses incurred >by complainant, and 10s Weekly towards the . support of the child. iCbmplainiant was also allowed £2 2s legal costs and witnesses’ exoenses.

Slow motion pictures of golf strokes by experts are of interest to players and therefore the exhibition of photographs of Bobby Jones tq. be given -tomorrow evening in the room above the .shop of Adamson and Robb, in. High Street, should draw a"large number of local golfer®. Mr John Lambic will give a lecture on the subject of the strokes and will also give demonstrations.

The pupils of Manaia High School have been working hard for the last four months at the preparation of a four-act- play to be presented at the town hall on Friday, July 6. Only those who have attempted the stupendous task of producing anything of the kind so difficult as Sir J. M. Barrie’s “Quality Street” can fully appreciate the grit and perseverance necessary to carry it to a successful termination. However, the work has been done with a will. The last few busy weeks have come, and it seems certain the public can look forward to something of no ordinary merit.

The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research decided at its last meeting to proceed with the establishment or the Rural Economic Research Committee, as a result of which steps are now being taken to secure nominations from various rural and other interests. It is expected that the new organisation will be set up at an' early date. In its first year’s investigations, the council has suggested the committee should pay particular attention to economic problems affecting the dairying industry. A certain amount of work has already been done in this direction by various workers, and it is felt that valuable experience will be gained by the committee in the-actual details of arranging economic research by concentrating on this aspect.

A report by Sir Alexander Gibb, the eminent English engineer, on flood control in the Waimakariri River, was before the Waimakariri River 'Trust Board at its meeting at Christchurch yesterday. Sir Alexander was asked to report on the best method of controlling the floods and averting the danger to the city of Christchurch, and he had before him a report on the same subject by the trust’s engineer, Mr. F. C. Hay. Sir Alexander agrees with Mr. Hay on some essential points. Mr. Hay’s scheme provided for straightening and shortening the river in its last reach to the sea. The scheme involves two diversion cuts, of one mile and two miles, with which Sir Alexander agrees. He. does not agree with the trapping and holding of shingle in the higher reaches of the river. For the protection of Christchurch he suggests longitudinal embankments or levees, which should be planted to ensure stability.

Australian papers 'report that, one of the largest and most powerful X-ray machines in the world ho® been installed at St. Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney, to he used in an attempt to cure all forms of cancer. It is now ready focus© by the Cancer Research Committee, which is supervising the expenditure of the vast sum raised ,in Sydney for cancer research purposes. The machine cost £SOOO. and operates, a Co-olidge watercooled tube specially produced for the .treatment of alt cancerous' growths. This tube alone cost £l6O. The apparatus' above the patient is controlled by a transformer in an adionng room 1 , by whoh the ordinary electric power i® changed' to high voltage current suitable for the production of the ray. The doctor cone? n trait os' the ray on. the .giowth and leaves the room to avoid exposure to the rays. A door lined with lead is closed, and the doctor observes the patient through, a window of ra.y-;proof glass. Next to him is the scientist controlling various switches and devices which set the machine in motion. A cord is placed in the hands of the patient, and when at -is pulled a, be,l rings con t i rmoufty until the doc.'tor enters the room. It is possible for the doctor to stop the machine instantly by precising a small 'button. The Claooer Research Commitee has already 'inspected the machine, which may be put into operation within the next week or so.