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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17078, 6 July 1926, Page 11

The replacement of the broken tumbler shaft on the dredge Korua, was completed to-day. and the vessel, which has been idle since Thursday will resume operations to morrow. The effect of the removal of the restrictions on the lower classes ol the public schools, which, took place yesterday, on the number of eases of diphtheria in the district is to be closely watched by the Health Department. The precaution of restricting the attendance of younger children at school tor a fortnight appears to have had a marked elfecCnnd since July 1 only one ease oil diphtheria has been reported. A number of cases of influenza have been brought to the,notice of the Department, hut the position is not regarded in any way ns alarming. The-two months during which the new regulations have been in operation have no i. been long enough to demonstrate the working of the, Customs preferential tariff, which does not, apply to goods containing less than 50 per cent, ol British value (remarks the Wellington Post). As was to he expected, previous to the alteration a quantity of goods was rushed into the country, and since U le . regulations have come into force a drop in the non-British goods has been recorded, hut the balance has yet to to struck. In the meantime a. number of articles have been “queried.” while ruble advice Is being sought- about the percentage of British-created value. Few of the. people who are amislonird to eating the- tinned meats which, come from tho Gisborne freezing works art:., aware of the careful manner in which these meals are handled. During a visit to the Haiti works to-day, a 'Herald representative was shown a in ichine which was inslalkJ lasi year for the filling of the fins with meat. Tiie machine, which i.s of a, most complicated design, and which cost oveil BICOO. rapidly handles all the meat and tills tiie tins without the meat being touched by the hands of tho worker. It is interesting- to know that ty'tsmachine, which in its ingenuity’seems almost human, was made in New Zealand, being a product of Cable’s works at Wellington,