TOWN EDITION

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 16186, 24 July 1923, Page 6

TOWN EDITION

A motor car driven by Mr. Bilcliffe caught fire in Stout street to-day, and was damaged. New Zealand's Victoria Cross winners receive among them an annual grant of £7O. An application for a re hearing in the shearing dispute Paul Ngawaka (Mr. J. i Blair) v. Frederick Hall (Mr. L. T. Barnard) was granted in the Magistrate's Court to-day by'Mr. E. 0. Lovvoy, S.M. The discovery of a deposit of shale has been made on Mr. Tippet’s farm at Cl if den (reports the Orepuki Advocate). A test bv the M’Lood process of retorting gives an encouraging return in crude oil. “I (fon t see why any of the business of the association should be kept from the press; publicity is the life of an institution, whether it is one which deals with farming interests or town matters, and it is from the press that wo must obtain that publicity,” stated Mr. P. Compton at the recent meeting of the general committee of the Masterton A. and P. Association. Coal from the West Coast should be much cheaper in Christchurch when the Arthur’s Pass Tunnel is opened, because there will be a big saving in the cost of transit. The present temporary railway charges from Greymouth to .Cliristchruch will be about halved. 'These opinions were expressed at a meeting of the Railway Committee set up by the Canterbury Progress League. The Rev. B. Hut son, a retired Presbyterian minister, addressed a. meeting in Balclutha, on the subject of “The Kti Klux Klan,” which he claimed was identical in many respects with the Protestant Political Association. He further indicated that the Klan has been much maligned both in America and New Zealand, and the tenor of his address throughout was in favor of the Klan as an offset- to the activities of the Roman Catholic Federation. The South Otago Freezing Company’s works at- Finegand, which closed down for the season last week, had the same experience as the Southland works, in that tile number of stock put through showed a falling-off compared with the 1922 season, and there was also an unusually large percentage of secondgrade lambs killed. This is attributable to the wet season, which prevented the stock fattening. The numbers put through at- Finegand wore: Sheep and lambs 106,434. compared with 110.155 last season (not including the spring killings). There were 74.716 first quality \ and 25,217 second quality lambs killed, as against 06.730 and 23,539 respectively last season. Dr. C. E. Fox. a Church of England missionary from wjiom Iho Otago University Museum has already received a considerable amount of ethnographic material from San Ci’istoval, in the Solomon Islands, has on his recent, visit to Dunedin brought another valuable collection of exhibits. There include replicas of stone figures and many objects that tend to support the views of Professor Elliot Smith regarding, the spread of Egyptian influence along the coast- of South Asia in ancient times. Some, of these will be shown during the course of Dr. Fox’s lecture to the Otago Institute. Dr. Fox lias brought with him n native of San Crist ova i who has an exceptional knowledge of these matters, and at his dictation a great deal of information has been taken down regarding all the articles from that island now in the Museum collection.

Authority is at the back of the assertion that influenza subjugates diphtheria —how or why we do not know, but the statement is seriously made, and facts known to the Dunedin hospital staff seem to support it (states the Star). Here are the facts. At the time when influenza was coming to its worst, in 1918, the official medical authorities had under control, for observation purposes and for the safeguarding of the public, 18 diphtheria "carriers." To have the care of such a number became quite a source of anxiety. What could be done with them? Were these to be "carriers" to the end of their days? Not so. Nature provided the escape. Sixteen of the 18 were stricken with the influenza, and lo and behold! they were "cleaned up" straightaway, for on recovering from the influenza they were bacteriologically proved to have ceased to bo "carriers" of diphtheria. The immediate result was that the two "carriers" who did not catch the influenza infection did their best to become so infected. They were willing to take their chances with the common complaint rather than continue to be under what seemed likely to bo perpetual restrictions as "carriers" of diphtheria.