Infectious Diseases

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23046, 24 November 1936, Page 8

Infectious Diseases

Two cases of scarlet fever were admitted to the Lake Logan Hospital for the week ended at noon yesterday, one patient was discharged, and there are now eight patients suffering from scarlet fever in the institution There are no cases of infectious diseases in the Dunedin Hospital.

Overseas Mails

The Awatea from Sydney, which reached Wellington on Monday morning, has 78 bags of English and Australian mail for Dunedin, also the English air mails of November 4 and 9. The air mail should be to hand at 1.30 p.m. to-day, and the ordinary mails will arrive by train this afternoon. The Makura, which left San Francisco on Friday, has 231 bags of English and American mail and 38 parcel receptacles for Dunedin. The mail should reach the local office on the afternoon of December 8 Judgment Reserved

At a short sitting of the Supreme Court yesterday, his Honor Mr Justice Kennedy reserved judgment in the case in which David M'Culloch, a farmer, of Ngapara, is petitioning for a divorce from his wife, Jean Rae Stirling M'Culloch, on the grounds of separation for three years. His Honor stated that he would deliver judgment al 10.30 a.m, to-day.

Crop Prospects Latest reports state that the pastures in North Canterbury, South Canterbury, and North Otago are looking green, but that there is not an overabundance of feed. So far as the wheat, oats, and ryegrass crops are concerned, the growth is backward in these districts on account of the absence of rain and the prevalence of cold winds. The crop prospects in Otago are favourable, but in Central Otago dry conditions are being experienced. Glowing reports are being received of the conditions in Southland, where the country from one end of the province to the other is looking in splendid order.

“ For the Game’s Sake ” “ This talk of our alleged failure at the Olympic Games is absurd,” remarked Mr Dudley Hellmrich, the noted Australian swimming authority, last evening when replying to a welcome tendered to the visiting Australian swimming team. Japan, with her teeming millions, and other countries, he said, made sport more or less of a religion, but New Zealand and Australia took their sport as sport, and played the game for the game’s sake. They were not subsidised, and until they were, and until the winning of a contest meant everything to them, they would never be preeminent. ‘‘l think they are better as they are,” Mr Hellmrich concluded. Extent of Laziness

A new limit in laziness was described in the Auckland Supreme Court last week by a wife seeking divorce on the ground of separation. She said her husband was a very lazy man. He had been on relief work, but was too lazy even to go and draw his relief pay. The petitioner obtained her decree. Pictures on Christmas Night

The Christchurch theatres are to open on the evening of Christmas Day this year. The Christchurch City Council (says a Press Association telegram) last night repeated its decision of last year on this point. A request by one proprietor to screen pictures during Christmas Day was not granted.

A Vigil that Failed At a certain station on the Main Trunk railway a 50-gallon barrel of beer arrived by train and was deposited on the floor of the building. The local policeman decided that he would wait for a claimant of the beer, and for some hours kept vigil. Cold and weary, the constable decided to take a little exercise and walked up and down the platform, casting a glance now and then at the barrel, for which no claimant had appeared. Going back to the barrel he found that it had lost its contents. Examination showed that a hole had been drilled from under the building through the floor, the barrel had been successfully tapped, and its contents had thus reached their intended destination.

American Teachers’ Tour Four American teachers, travelling at their own expense, arrived at Auckland yesterday by the Maunganui from Sydney, after visiting several Oriental countries and Australia. They are the Misses S. Friedman, A. Goldstucker, E. Gross, and R. Gross, and will see as much of New Zealand as is possible before sailing by the Aorangi on December 7. They hope to visit a number of schools, and said they had enjoyed the tour thoroughly, and the people everywhere had been exceedingly helpful. “ Postie ” as a Salesman

Not many people would regard the familiar postman as a salesman, but that he has ability in this direction is evidenced by the fact that, during the past four days, postmen in Dunedin have been responsible for the sale of “ Health ” stamps to the value of over £7O, representing a contribution of over £35 to the camapign funds. The efforts of the postmen on behalf of the children are very much appreciated by the local executive, and it is hoped that those householders who have not yet purchased stamps from the postmen will now do so and so increase materially the amount that will become available from this phase of the campaign.

Attacks on Party Leaders That there had not been enough done to defend Mr Coates and Mr Forbes from personal attacks was an opinion expressed by Mr T. D. Burnett, M.P., at a meeting in Fairlie on Saturday night. Mr Coates, without being a total abstainer, Mr Burnett said, was a very abstemious man. “ I have rarely seen him touch liquor,” he added. It was becoming well known that the best way to break up a party was to poison its leaders. Mr Forbes had been attacked in a different way; it was spread abroad that he was a nonentity.

New Water Supply The announcement that the Deep Creek water supply would be turned on on Thursday, December 3, was made by the chairman of the Water Committee (Cr Begg) at the meeting of the City Council last night. The Mayor (the Rev. E. T. Cox) congratulated Cr Begg on the completion of the scheme. .'he bringing in of 2,500,000 gallons of water per day into the city, he said, would relieve the tension in the minds of many people. Japan and New Zealand

“ I have been opening up new markets for the Dominion in deer’s horns and pigs’ bristles for brush making," said Captain K. K. Tsukigawa. master of the river steamer Clutha, who has just returned to the Dominion froma visit to his native country. “There is also a splendid opening in Japan for New Zealand's cheese and butter. Very little butter and cheese is made in Japan, and most of what is imported into the country comes from Canada. Japan also wants wheat, but unfortunately the wheat you grow in New Zealand contains too much moisture. and steps should be taken to harden it. This would pay New Zealand growers, as there is a strong demand in Japan for wheat. There is also a keen demand for manganese, iron, and copper ore, all of which, I am given to understand. New Zealand can supply. Japan also requires any kind of mineral, and is prepared to take any quantity of scrap iron, not for shells, but for building purposes. Japan is very anxious to trade with New Zealand, and all talk of annexation is rubbish. Japan wants friendly co-operation in order that both countries may trade with mutual profit. Japan has no desire whatever to annex China, or even Manchukuo. but is determined to see that China has a stable form of government.

Rubbish Firo At 11.10 last night the City Fire Brigade was called out to 20 Canongate to a rubbish fire. There was no damage done. “ Driven Into a Corner ” “We have driven the liquor traffic into a corner and we must keep it there,’’ said Mr J. Malton Murray, general secretary of the New Zealand Alliance, on his return from a tour of Great Britain, the United States of America, Canada, and Australia. “In the United States,” he said, “they kill 36,000 people a year on the highways. When prohibition was in force we received cables telling us what terrible things were happening, but we are not told what is happening under the repeal.” Mr Murray said there had been an increase in smuggling under the repeal, and quoted instances of political corruption. San Francisco, he said, was a “liquor inferno.” In England magnificent temperance teaching was being done in the schools. New Zealand was a long way behind Britain and Australia in this direction.

Influence of the Bible “Considering the state of the world to-day, I hesitate to think what it would be like without the leavening influence of the Bible,” said Archbishop Averill, speaking at the ninetieth annual meeting of the Auckland auxiliary of the British and Foreign Bible Society. There was a tremendous call to Christian people to witness their belief in God, and he believed they had one of the most potent witnesses in the Bible Society. When so many were opposing God, it should be a challenge to the people to take their place on the side of God.

The “ Week-ending Menace ” A great increase in “ week-ending ” is likely to be the chief difficulty for the church arising out of the increased leisure brought by new legislation, according to the report of the Social Relationships Committee to the Presbyterian General Assembly. The subversive influence of the practice, the report stated, which taught young people to turn Sunday into a holiday, was already being felt. “Where,” the report asked, “are we to direct our effort here? Into fighting the practice or into following the week-ender to his resort and providing spiritual ministries there? The former is not likely to be very successful and the latter is the statesmanlike thing to do —to take the Gospel where the people are.”

Worse Than Earthquakes! "T was certainly not charmed with their earth tremors. Personally, I would much prefer an old-fashioned New Zealand earthquake, with its undulating motion,” said Mr L. W. Ormandy, of Christchurch, in speaking of some experiences during a visit to South Africa. It was while visiting Johannesburg that Mr Ormandy felt not one but a succession of weird earth tremors, which gave rise, he said, to a strange sinking sensation. Johannesburg and its environs—covering in all an area of 85 miles by 35—was honeycombed with the working of gold mines, and, as these excavations had been carried out on a very large scale for the last half-century, gradual subsidences in the earth’s crust were now taking place. With a sustained weekly production of gold to the value of about £1,250,000 from the mines at Johannesburg, the city was naturally in a boom, said Mr Ormandy, but, notwithstanding this prosperity, it was no place for the average European immigrant. All manual labour was performed by the natives, and to qualify for professional positions and highly-skilled trades one had to speak Dutch as well as English, and sometimes a smattering of various other tongues. As far as he could see, the native-born Dutch predominated in politics and most other walks of life as well.

Mrs Blanche Levi, who is to return to London, will give a farewell recital in Begg’s Salon on December 1. The programme contains the magnificent Tschaikowsky “ Concerto in B Flat major,” in which Miss Rona'Thomson will be the soloist, and the Beethoven “ Concerto in E Flat major,” with Miss Aimee Champion at the keyboard. The orchestral accompaniments to both concertos will be played on a second piano by Blanche Levi. The plan opens on Thursday. At the reception at the Vedic arranged for to-morrow night by the League of Nations Union the speakers will be Mr Willi Fels, C.M.G., who is a vice-president of this branch of the League of Nations Union, and Miss Black, of Archerfleld. An “at home” will be held at the Trinity Methodist Schoolroom on Thursday. An attractive musical and elocutionary programme has been arranged by Florence Pacey. The proceeds are for medical funds for the Home Mission in the Solomon Islands. For Fishing Tackle of the best makes, tor Electrical Appliances of every description, for Electrical Repairs, Jobbing, and Contracting, for Stella and Lekmek Radios, go to Barth Electric. Ltd., 36 George street. Inspection invited.— Advt: Eye Strain.—For eye comfort or better vision consult Stunner and Watson, Ltd., opticians. 2 Octagon. Dunedin Advt. A. E. J. Blakeley and W. JE. Bagley, dentists, Bank of Australasia, corner of Bond and Rattray streets (next Telegraph Office). Telephone 12-359. Advt.