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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18235, 2 November 1933, Page 11

That a little publicity in Japan might , be very beneficial to the New Zealand , tourist traffic was a statement made by Mr. S. Okamoto, a representative of a J Japanese rubber manufacturing firm, in I an interview with a representative of the , Christchurch Press. He said that Japan had a fairly large travelling popula j tion, but although a great number visited , Australia they seldom extended theii ’ travels to New Zealand. There was , practically no New Zealand publicity in [ his country, and lie found great difficulty in procuring a New Zealand guide ’ hook from the tourist bureau,\. ' The Medical Research Council’s 1 statement, cabled this week, that the , 1 sowing of a sorbo rubber ball contain- ] ing a concentrated dose of radium into 1 r an internal affected organ had cured i cancer docs not add a great deal to | - established knowledge in the treat- . mont of this disease, Dr. I*. C. Fen- ■ wick, of the Christchurch Hospital, declared. He said he had used internal treatment with radium for curing , ; cancer with satisfactory results for I years, and the practice was known the ' world over. The sorbo rubber ball ! was just one typo of container for ’ putting tho radium into the infected ■ part. Other methods which had ' proved satisfactory were fairly generally known and used. I