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Manawatu Times, Volume 60, Issue 231, 1 October 1935, Page 8

A disease very common in this country, although it was scarcely guarded against, was hydatids, said Dr. Stanley Poster during an address which he gave at Canterbury University College. People fondled dogs, from which the disease could mostly easily be caught, as if they were not at all dangerous, and eompetely disregarded that such displays of affection merely put themselves in 'he we 1 ' of contamination. Dogs carried the germ on their muzzles, passing it on unnoticeably but very often effectively. Nor were people sufliciently careful in keeping dogs away from vegetable gardens. For this reason the thorough washing of vegetables, especially if t..ey were to be eaten raw, could not be too firmly advocated. The Pope has been presented with a •wonderful “Eucharistic” clock. It is about two feet high and has a globemap of the world which is lighted by electricity. On the map is indicated the time at which Mass is being celebrated at any particular moment in any part of the world -