NEWS OF THE DAY

Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 65, 18 March 1938, Page 6

NEWS OF THE DAY

Dr. Bingham, a well known American, will address the Citizens’ Lunch Club to-day on “Past feeling of Abyssinia and Italy as it affects our present future.” Mr Gordon Priest will preside. On the voyage from Vancouver of the motor-ship Elm bank, which reached Auckland on Monday, the death occurred of an Arab saloon boy, Abdul Mozid. Death, which was due to puou monia, occurred as the ship was near the equator, and the Arab was buried at sea by native members of the crew according to Mohammedan rites. Manuka, which is a pest in most places, is useful to the New Brighton Borough Council, which is considering planting it. The council uses manuka extensively for wind-breaks along the sand-dunes of the foreshore, and at a recent meeting it instructed its reserves committee to report on establishing a manuka nursery to provide a supply for later setting out in plantations. of unsettled conditions in the East, the words “Rotula, Holland” appear in heavy lettering on the sides of the Dutch motor-tanker Rotula, which is discharging motor-spirit from Singapore at Western Wharf, Auckland. The Rotula generally trades in Eastern waters, and the lettering plainly indicates her neutral nationality. Skips of the Yamashita Kisen Kaisha Line visiting Auckland have, in some cases, the name of the line similarly displayed. The next charter of the Bank Line mutor-ship Elwbank, which is now un : loading timber from Vancouver at Auckland, will take her to Vladivstock with wheat from Now South Wales. The Llmbank left yesterday for Sydney and, after completing discharge of timber, she will load 7700 tons of wheat, leaving for Vladivstock early next month. Large quantities of Australian wheat have been sold to Russia for MarchApril loading and numbers of vessels which were to have loaded wheat for Europe have been diverted to Via i;vstock. In addition to these several ships have been directly chartered.

The contract for Hawke’s Bay’s new radio station at Opapa has now been signed, although the tender itself was accepted some weeks ago. The successful price of £6262 was tendered by the Johnson Building Compahy, of Napier, who will commence work almost immediately, and anticipate completing the contract, which is for the station building only, by the end of August. The building is to contain a large transmitting room 1550 square meet in area, with a studio and offices. A reservoir capable of storing 25,000 gallons of water, and a high tank stand will be constructed behind the station.

Returns showing the incidence of tuberculosis among all workers at the Auckland Hospital were asked for at a meeting of the Auckland Hospital Board by Dr. J. P. Hastings. He said he had found that the incidence among the nurses was no greater than among the general public, and as their chances of contracting the disease were often greater in general hospitals, it would be interestingto discover why this was so. One of the reasons leading to an expectation that nurses were more liable to contagion, he said, was that they came into contact with many unknown cases of tuberculosis, and it would be a valuable step if all incoming patients were required to have a chest examination, no matter what their complaint was. “What struck one about Germany was the cleanliness of the streets and the fact that everybody seemed busy, ” stated Mr C. G. C. Dernier, of Cheltenham, in relating to members of the executive of the Manawatu and West Coast Dairy Companies’ Association yesterday some impressions of his recent trip abroad. “If you drop a tram ticket in the streets you are fined. You get a feeling that everybody is working and hard at it. It had an effect on you that made you realise that, if we went to war with Germany, they would be a hard proposition.” Mr Dermer added that in France the people seemed “a giddy lot” and gave the impression that not much reliance could be placed on them.