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Northland Age, Volume 8, Issue 2, 12 October 1938, Page 13

The Municipal Council of Jerusalem has decided to demolish the former General Post Office and some adjoining buildings, and to lay out a garden on the site thus cleared, which will give a better view of the ancient walls of the city. ☆ ☆ ☆ During the first half of the year 106,569 persons were killed or injured in road accidents in Great Britain, 71 fewer than in the first half of 1937. ☆ ☆ ☆ A vast scheme to evacuate five million people from London and other large towns in war-time has been completed by an all-party parliamentary committee.

As an aid to poultry raisers, Dr. C. W. Knox, of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, has devised a method of testing eggs for fertility when incubated for only thirteen to twenty

hours. Glass slides, one yellow and one green, are placed before the light of the usual egg candles, and the eggs observed through blue spectacles. Embryos appear as spots the size of a sixpence.

Lord Horden, the King’s physician, addressing London medical students, said: “Our patients are getting more and more intelligent and we have to treat them as being more intelligent. No longer can we expect to get away with it by saying, ‘Of course I could explain it to you, but you would not understand.’ The patient is beginning to wonder whether that means we do not understand —and half the time that’s what it does mean.” ☆ ☆ ☆ The wedding cake of Anita Lizana, the tennis star, was decorated with sugar tennis racquets. ☆ ☆ ☆ The German Government, despite its line up with Tokyo, is supplying China with arms. The reason is that walfram, vital compound of tungsten, iron and Manganese, is very rare in Germany, but plentiful in China. So arms are bartered for ore.

John Masefield, poet-laureate, on the emblem of England: “I have seen many images of John Bull, but none showing him as a person who could think, or pray, or fight, or be courteous or chivalrous or merciful, or practise any art or sink or make love, or do a decent day’s woi'k, or have an enlightened idea, or be tolerable company under any circumstances whatever.”

To celebrate the silver jubilee of the National Union of Railwaymen, the N.U.R. is demanding a minimum wage of 50/- a week. ☆ ☆ ☆ The drivers of Manchester ambulances have covered two and a-half million miles in five years without an accident. ☆ ☆ ☆ Between 40,000 and 50,000 doctors—representing about 80 per cent of the profession—have volunteered for war work if hostilities should break out. So it was stated at the B.M.A. Conference at Plymouth. ☆ ☆ ☆ In his presidential address at the British Medical Association Conference at Plymouth, Dr. Colin D. Lindsay said: “The faith of the public in a bottle of medicine is pathetic. I grant it may be used on account of its psychological effect, but often it is quite unnecessary, and is only prescribed because the public expect and insist on it.” ☆ ☆ ☆ Distillers Company, Ltd., which controls practically all the whsky that comes out of Scotland, has declared its usual dividenid of 22 h per cent and carried £400,000 to reserve.

In order to revive the fur trade and to enable Red Indians to earn their living undisturbed by white men, the Canadian Government is planning to provide reservations in Arctic Canada and to stock them with beavers.

During the present visit of the King and Queen to France, the French Government was to present them with a dinner service of the finest Sevres china, decorated with hunting scenes, and the princesses with a similar tea service, both made at the famous State porcelain factory at Sevres, near Paris.

Field-Marshal Goering, as direct-

or of Germany’s Four-Year Plan for economic self-sufficiency, has decreed national compulsory service for all German men and women, who must carry out any task assigned to them, irrespective of their status, age or profession. The reason given is that as there now only 37,000 able-bodied unemployed in Germany, the labour reserve is being exhausted, endangering the success of the plan.

A cow which produces 500 gallons of milk during a lactation period, equivalent to approximately 2001 b of fat, removes from the pasture at least 71b of lime and 111 b of phosphoric acid in the milk alone. This is equivalent to approximately a half-hundred of bonedust or superphosphate. Thus a herd of 110 cows would remove yearly a ton of these fertilisers from the pastures.

Pneumonia, asthma and other respiratory afflictions are now being treated with a mixture of oxygen and helium. This is much lighter than air and tests show that it is three times as easy to breathe as ordinary air, thus the patient is able to get the needed oxygen through the obstructed air passages with less effort.

Oranges and other fruits are now being packed in America for shipment in a novel sectional case that can be divided into eight parts. Held together by staples pressed into the wood at the ends and sides, the sections make moderate amounts of the fruit available in the original container for home use. ☆ ☆ ☆ Under the national scheme of dairy farm instruction, five instructors have been appointed to superintend farms in the West Coast district.