OFFICIAL WIRELESS

Hokitika Guardian, 1 October 1929, Page 6

OFFICIAL WIRELESS

EXPEDITION TO RHODESIA. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, September 27. An expedition of' malaria experts ifrom the Ross Institute will leave England to-day bv the Carnarvon Castle lor preventive work in 2000 miles of copper-mining country in Northern Rhodesia. The party includes Sir William Simpson, Director of Tropical Hygiene, who is a great authority on public health both at Home and abroad. Sir William has been a member' of many Government commissions. He has investigated cholera in Egypt, plague in Hongkong, dysentry, typhoid fever and plague in South Africa, yellow fever in West Africa, and general sanitation in Singapore and the Gold Coast. The expedition is clue to the activities of the Ross Institute’s Industrial Advisory Committee, which is a combination of business men and experts interested in the successful development' o'f the tropical and sub-tropical areas of the Empire.

GERAIS IN THE AIR. FUNGUS CAUGHT BY ’PLANES. RUGBY, September 27. The use of aeroplanes for fighting plant diseases was described at a meeting of tliol.lmperial Mycological Confrence in London, yesterday. Dr R. Gussbw, a Canadian delegate, said that enormous losses had been caused in the wheat'belt by rust, which took an average toll of £5,000,000 a year. - In 1916 when there was a bad epidemic, the cost to the dominion was £50,000,000. Aeroplanes were used for trapping spores of the fungus, which were caught on gelatine slides. Mycologists had found that the spores df rust were coining from the south on air currents, and their progress could be traced throughout the season. Dr Gu'ssow stated that lie had trapped fungus spore at an altitude of 10,000 feet, and 90 per cent of these germinated.

TRADE WITH CANADA. APPRECIATION OF AIR THOAfAS’S EFFORTS. RUGBY, September 27. A.l.r •). H. Thomas, Lord Privy Seal, continuing his conversations with representatives of industry on the possibilities of the Canadian market, yesterday received representatives of the iron and steel manufacturers.

Appreciation was expressed of Air Thomas’s efforts on behalf of British trade, and it was agreed that further consultations should take place from time to .time. '