PERSONAL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19147, 15 April 1924, Page 8

PERSONAL

Major-general C. W. Melvill returned nort'h by the express yesterday. Mr J. R. Wilson left by the expresi yesterday en route to Wellington. Dr T. M‘Kibbin (District Health Officer, left by yesterday morning’s express ei route to Wellington, where he will atteni a meeting of the Board of Health. Lieutenant D. R. Gampagnac, R.N., wh< arrived by the Ruahine to join H.M.S Chatham, will replace Lieutenant Fell (sor of Dr Fell, of Malvina Bay), who will pro ceed to London shortly.

The Clutha Presbytery, at a special meeting held at Balclutha on Friday, sustained a well-signed call from G'waka to tiae Rev, J. C. Paterson, M.A., of Lincoln, North Canterbury. The call will be forwarded to the Christchurch Presbytery, and in the event of its acceptance Mr Paterson’s settlement will take place about the middle of June. Mr H. S, Hammond has received advice of his appointment to till the vacancy in the management of the local branch of the National Bank of New Zealand, caused by the promotion of Mr G. W. MTntosh as chief inspector. Mr Hammond joined the bank at Wellington in 1896, was transferred to Dunedin in 1909, was appointed accountant at Invercargill in 1917, and returned to Dunedin four years later ia a similar position.

At the annual meeting of householders at the North-East Valley School kst night, Mr J. Hilliker, who, owing to pressure of business, resigned his seat on the committee, was thanked by the chairman and other members for the good work he had done on that body. Mr Hilliker, in reply, said that it had been a pleasure for him to work with the other members. He was sorry he had not been able to devote more time to the affairs of the school.' However, the little opportunity of to-day would make the greater opportunity of to-rnorrow.

The party of American medical experts who attended the recent medical conference in Auckland returned from a two weeks’ trip to Australia by the Makura, which arrived at Auckland yesterday morning (writes our correspondent). The visitors are on their way home. Included in the party were Dr and Mrs Wm. J. Mayo, Dr and Mrs Franklin H. Martin, Dr Richard Harte, Dr and Mrs Richard R. Smith, and Mr and Mrs John H. Ka-hler. The death occurred at his residence, Park Terrace, yesterday, under painfully sudden circumstances, of Mr Thomas Scott -Smith, a well-known member of the Blenheim bar (says a Press Association message). Mr Scott-Smith was the son of a sheep farmer in Forfarshire, Scotland. He was educated at the Dundee . cademy and studied at Edinburgh University. After his admission to the bar, he went to India and practised for some years at Calcutta. Rangoon, and Banin (British Burma). He came to New Zealand in 1884 and was admitted as a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court. He was engaged in private practice until 19021, when he was appointed a stipendiary magistrate at Blenheim, with the accompanying offices of Registrar of the Supreme Court, District Land Registrar, Coroner, Examiner of Titles, official member of the Maori Council, and Warden of the Goldfields Hy' retained these offices for some years, and was then transferred to Auckland. He resigned from the bench about 14 years ago and entered into private practice in Blenheim. THE YACHT CLUB’S CRUISING RACK. TO THE EDITOR. Sin,—lt is stated in your account of the Otago Yacht Club’s cruising race on Saturday °last that Snray retired at Macandrewa. This is not a fact. Spray finished the race as well as the other boats did, although she was well behind. She had trouble with her mainsail off Gnaasy Point, but she managed to get to Broad Bay wharf, and ala* sail home again,—I am, etc., Skipper op £prxy. “ KEEP TO THE LEFT.” TO TUB IDITO>. Sm, —Notwithstanding the endeavours of our civic authorities to get pedestrians to keep to the loft, a great many people still wander along on the wrong side of the street, quite unconscious of the fact that those who observe the rule of the road, look upon them as lacking in ordinary intelligence in being so long in understanding ■what is required. I wonder if our school teachers have ever advised their pupils of the rule. I do not think this has been done in many of the secondary schools. To-day the girls of Archerfield School all walked in orderly form to swimming on the wrong side of the fobtpath, and many of them hit me with their bags as I heroically determined not to shift from the left side. Every day one sees hundred* of secondary school children going up Rattray and Stuart streets in a most disorderly fashion. Of course, they are young and it is only to bo expected that they should go along in a happy, care-free manner, but could their teachers not ask them to keep to the left, and save all this dodginT to avoid collisions?—l am, etc.. ° Keep to the Left. RADIUM TREATMENT. TO TBK EDITOR Sir, —I was interested to read a letter by “Anxious” in your columns of the 4th inst. Fot reasons which are really in the interest of the general public qualified medical practitioners are averse to publishing their results in the lay press, but I think that this is a time when some sort of indication should be given as to what may be aooonipished by radiation therapy. Unfortunatey I have not been doing this work for a period long enough to talk of my own results or apparent cures at the end of a five-year period, but 1 have by me a fairly recent report of the Manchester Radium Institute where I was engaged for a considerable period. In this report Dr Burrows, (the superintendent) considered the results obtained during the previous five years. Since this report was issued I have seen some of these cases myself. For instance, Dr Burrows has six cases of cancer of the breast which have been well from four to seven years; cancer of mouth and lip, six cases; various, 25 cakes over the same period. Amongst the first 20 patients suffering from rodent ulcer at the institute, although! the majority of the cases were advanced, 50 per cent, were still living some seven years later. Of course, all these patients enumerated above were amongst the first that were treated at the institute when it opened some eight or nine years ago in the Manchester Royal Infirmary. On the other hand, probable or apparent cures of one, two, or three years’ duration run into the hundreds and represent roughly 25 to 45 per cent, of those undergoing treatment. Furthermore, it must be remembered that all the early cases which presented themselves at the institute for treatment were borderline cases —that is to say, small though they seem, are all the more remarkable. More recent cases with the improvements in the method of treatment that have been evolvol show an even happier expectation of similar prolongation of like. Our own local results, though unhappily not us yet attaining this high standard, show a similarity of result that augurs well for future work in the new institute where advanced methods will be available that are now denied to the doctors in their fight wiui this mortal enemy of mankind.—l am. etc., t... C. Axdkr.son. Dunedin. April 14. Over 300,000,000 cigars were exported from -the Philippines last year.