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Marlborough Express, Volume XLVII, Issue 205, 30 August 1913, Page 3

A somewhat unusual petition was submitted to Parliament this week by Mr Macdbnald (Bay of Plenty) on behalf of Herbert Clapham, medical botanist, of Auckland, and 7110 others. The petitioner states that he, not being a duly qualified medical practitioner, finds his humane efforts clashing with the interests of the , medical profession, although he knows himself to be qualified to place the cure of consumption before the world at largo for the benefit of suffering humanity. He explains that the processes and method of cure are radically different from the treatment hitherto recognised and employed, and entail an initial expense which is beyond his means. He, therefore, prays that the Government grants a sum sufficient to enable him to disburse the initial outlay, or, alternatively, that the Government undertakes the treatment of consumptives according to his methods and formulas under his direction, and if successful after a fair and satisfactory test has been made, to recompense him by bonus or otherwise. He also requests the Government to grant him immunity from any prosecution to which he may be liable in the contravening of certain Acts in demonstrating his cure. Time was when the Maori did not need any conveyance to take him and j his wahine on an excursion whitebait fishing, but now things have changed a little (says the Wanganui Herald). Anyone who was early astir on a certain morning last week would have seen a party of Maoris in a very fine j motor-car, loaded np with all the j paraphernalia that attends the interesting and sometimes remunerative occupation of fishing for whitebait.