IN TOWN AND OUT

Southland Times, Issue 25306, 8 June 1935, Page 4

IN TOWN AND OUT

NEWS OF THE DAY Doctors as Penmen. Are doctors bad writers? At the Bluff Court yesterday Mr H. J. Macalister was attempting to read a medical report when he came to a word he could .iot decipher. “Like most doctors,” said Mr Macalister, “he’s a terrible writer.” « * * ♦ ! Unable to Wear Legal Wig. An echo of the recent fall of plaster in the courthouse at Invercargill reached Dunedin yesterday meriting, when Mr Gordon Reed, who received a scalp wound, appeared in a case there. Mr Reed, who has just had the stitches removed from the wound on his head, was unable to wear his legal wig, and was granted permission to appear without it, though he was obliged to bring it into court and place it on the table beside him. . « « • Introduction to Hokonui. A desire to thoroughly investigate the products of Southland was expressed by the chairman of the New Zealand Dairy Produce Board, Mr A. J. Murdoch, M.P., at the dairy ward conference yesterday. “I am disappointed not to hear the name Hokonui in the roll-call,” said Mr Murdoch at the commencement of his address. “Coming down in the train your member, Mr John Dunlop, promised to introduce me to Hokonui. So far he has not done so.” (Laughter.) « « « « “Little or No Use.” “Two hours before work! It’s a wonderful regulation—little or no use at all,” commented the Magistrate, Mr W. H. Freeman, S.M., in a case at Bluff yesterday. He was referring to the following clause in the. regulations under the Stone Quarries Act 1910: “The quarry manager or foreman shall daily and within two hours immediately before the time for commencing work in any part of the quarry inspect every working-place or travelling-road and all adjacent places from which danger might arise, etc.” Not Coming South. Travelling with the All-India hockey team is Mrs Doctor, the cultured wife of the manager of the team. It had been anticipated that she would accompany the team throughout the tour and arrangements had been made for her entertainment while in Invercargill by the wives of the executive members of the Southland Men’s Hockey Association. Advice has now been received that Mrs Doctor is remaining in Christchurch until the first Test match on June 22 as the guest of Mr H. S Goodman (president of the New Zealand Association) and Mrs Goodman. » » • » Defining Licensed Premises. An interesting point arose at the annual meeting of the Awarua Licensing Committee yesterday concerning the defining of licensed premises by boundary fences. In respect of several hotels, the rear of which has no boundary fence, the committee required that the premises be defined by the erection of a suitable fence. The solicitor for the licensees (Mr O. A. B. Smith) asked what type of fence was required. If it were merely a matter of defining the boundary, would not a chalk line do? The chairman of the committee (Mr W. H. Freeman, S.M.) said that human nature had to be considered. Perhaps a corrugated iron fence with broken bottles on the top would meet the case. Would counsel suggest- a single wire fence? After a brief discussion counsel undertook that the fences would be erected. Blowing the Nose. Few civilized people know how to blow their noses properly. Dr G. Home, lecturing at New Plymouth, said the proper method was to stop each nostril singly and in turn to blow through each separately until it was freely open. He recalled that years ago he was called to a private school to see a child that suffered frequently from colds. The teacher was inclined to smile when the correct .methods of blowing the nose was demonstrated to the pupil, but some time later she admitted that, colds in the school had been reduced by two-thirds after she had taught the children the doctor’s method. Emphasizing the importance of a clean mouth and nose, Dr Home said they were the portals of entry for practically all the infectious disorders of the temperate regions. If they, were kept healthy, many varieties of infection would be prevented from developing. He advised breathing deeply in and out through each nostril alternately every day.

Jubilee Cancer Fund. The Southland Times has received from Miss P. C. Thomson, formerly of Lennel, Invercargill, now of Queen’s Gate, London, through her agents, the Perpetual Trustees Estate and Agency Co. Ltd., a cheque for £25 as a donation to the King’s Jubilee Cancer Research Fund. As everybody knows, all parts of the British Empire have raised, or are, raising, funds to make gifts to his Majesty the King in celebration of his silver jubilee, and his Majesty has in most cases indicated the object towards which he would like' any fund so raised to be applied. So far as New Zealand is concerned it is in accordance with his Majesty’s pleasure that all moneys collected for the King’s Jubilee gift in New Zealand are to be devoted not to a gift personal to himself, but towards the object of assisting the various forms of cancer research in this country for the relief of the many sufferers from this scourge. The King is patron of the British Empire Cancer Campaign, and the Duke of York founded the branch in New Zealand. To this fund subscriptions are now being received and any sent to the Southland Times will be acknowledged and sent to the proper authorities. Though now living in England Miss Thomson wished her contribution'to go into the Invercargill fund for an object which must command universal sympathy and support because of the strength and urgency of its appeal and also because of the opportunity it affords of expressing loyalty to the Throne. Every effort must be made to ensure that when the time comes for comparisons New Zealand’s achievement in this matter will compare creditably with what has been done in Canada, South Africa and the Australian States.