NEW ZEALAND NEWS

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 27, 31 January 1929, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND NEWS

NOTES FROM ALL PARTS. THE DOMINION, DAY BY DAY. HERB, THERE, AND EVERTWHERF GIRL'S SWOT. A girl of. 17 years, Miss Phyllis Boucher, swam from Russell to Paiha on Sunday. Tt is believed this is the first time the Bay of Islands has been crossed by a swimmer from Russell to Paihia. The girl, who lives at Russell, entered the water near the Russell Wharf, and finished on the beach near the Paihia Wharf. She was quite fresh, and walked up the beach. The distance of the swim was two miles 524 yards, and the time taken was one "hour 55 minutes. ' CANADIAN VISITOR'S PRAISE. A Canadian visitor who spent a few days in Wanganui, when referring to the New Zealand scenery he had seen in his time, remarked that the Wanganui River was the best. Speaking generally of other parts, he marked that the Canadian scenery , could beat it "However," he remarked, "I have only seen a part i of your scenery, and I am expressing an opinion on that part only. He was greatly delighted with the thermal activity at Rotorua, and said it was worth coming all the way to see. MTJSTC A WASH-OUT. "What is that music?" queried Mr J. Hislop at the Devonport Borough Council meeting, as the strains of a •jazz tune floated in through the windows during the municipal deliberations. "That's the gramophone orchestra on the jazz hoard," said Mr Enright. "I don't think it should' be allowed while council is sitting," declared Mr Hisolp. "What about moving the council night 1 ?" queried another member, referring to the fact that these open-air dances are held on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Council had just decided t 0 put up with the musical honours for the good of the borough, when a sharp shower caused a sudden cessation of the melody. A chuckling comment from Mr Hislop announced that for once, anyhow, ."the music was a washout!" and the solemn deliberations of the borough fathers proceeded minus extraneous harmony.

A VETERAN! CONSTABLE.

A recent article in the Auckland Star, referring to - the "one-man policeman" policy of the late John Ballance at Parihaka, when military llorces were withdrawn fromi the West Coast, recalls the fact that the arduous duties of keeping the peace between the pakehas and the Maoris was Constable Thomas Hickman, the smallest man in the police force in New Zealand. Mr Hickman was in some respects a very remarkable man, full of tact and sound common sense, and having a good knowledge of the Maori language. His appointment was a masterstroke on the Part of Ballance, who simply smiled when people shook thenheads and pointed out the risk he was taking. Mr Hickman retired from the force in 1911, hut is still wonderfully well, having ' his home at Wanganui.. He is one of the youngest veterans of the Maori War and for 16 years has been secretary of the Maori War Veterans' Association.

THE "LIVER CURE."

Iu the old days, when bushfelling was one of the leading industries in the young colony, one of the greatest delicacies which the hardy bushteller used to look forward to for his Sunday morning breakfast, as a iielief from the "hard Vucketf in which "damper" formed a staple part, was a good feed of fried liver after a wild beast had been hunted and killed as it roamed through its wooded retreat. The bushman fared better than he knew, for of all the foods which, he cpuld have eat- • en during his four or, five months' isolation from civilisation, none could have helped better to keep the blood stream in good order, or keep him free from boils- and other impurities than this. What is now known as the "liver cure" for pernicious anaemia proves this to be true. WKxn, policeman appointed to take on the derful cures have been wrought in Auckland by some medical men in this dreaded disease, and at once institution there are a number ot patients who are fed almost entirely C bullock's liver soup, which .up--1 plies the deficient red corpuscles to e blood. The discovery ot the value of liver as a diet in thus particular disea S e has revolutionised I treatment of it. and has, restored ]inan y a weary suffered to health.