SPAHLINGER TREATMENT.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19066, 11 January 1924, Page 8

SPAHLINGER TREATMENT.

HIGH COMMISSIONER’S SCHEME. (From Our Own Correspondent.} LONDON, December 4. Long before this message can reach New Zealand the public will have had under consideration the scheme proposed by Sir James Allen to finance M. Spahlinger and to place him in a position to provide New Zealand with practically the whole of his outfit of serum and vaccine for the treatment of consumption. Sir James has long had this matter in mind, and he feels that if he can see it through hcwill have accomplished the greatest work he has sot his hand to during his term of office as High Commissioner. His recent visit to Geneva was fruitful. He was able to make defiuito arrangements with M. Spahlinger in case the necessary money could be raised in the dominion, and these proposals have all been cabled to the dominion'by the High Commissioner this week-end. Sir James Allen’s confidence in his scheme is perfectly obvious, but if any proof of this were needed it is seen in his donation of £IO3O to head the subscription list If the dominion is able to raise the £56,000, half the sum required to take over M. Spahlingnr’s output until the end of 1926, and if tho Government decides to vote the other half,. Sir James considers that New Zealand will prove itself a leader of nations again, and incidentally will gain a.e greatest advertisement it has ever had. Looking at it from an economic point «,f view, tie sees the dairy herds of the -ountry swept clean of tho dread disease, ei d the sanntoriums for consumptives shut down. It is probable, of course, that much ’-ill depend upon the evidence given by Colonel the Hon. W. E. Collins before the Parliamentary Committee which it is Mr Massey’s intention to set up on his return.