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Taranaki Daily News, 17 September 1924, Page 4

At a largely attended meeting of the New Plymouth Waterside Workers’ Union held on Friday, the following resolution was carried unanimously:—“That this meeting of the New Plymouth Waterside Workers’ Industrial Union of Workers express their confidence in the union’s representatives and endorse the attitude taken by them in the recent basic slag dispute; we furthermore wish to record our surprise at, and disapproval of the inhumanitarian attitude taken by certain of the employers, who, knowing the illeffects of this work on the health of the workers, have placed profits before life and safety of limbs, by demanding sixteen bags of basic slag in a sling.” A complete up-to-date moving picture plant for purely educational purposes was installed during the recent holiday terra at the Waitaki High School (states the North Otago Times). Mr. Williams personally secured and installed this plant, which, without doubt, is the first of its kind in the Dominion. It is only a matter of a few years when all the high and primary schools will have similar installations for education by the film method, and Oamaru will have the distraction of pioneering the movement. When he passed through Oamaru recently. Professor Adams, the eminent British educationist, was interviewed by the rector of the Waitaki Boys’ High School (states the North Otago Times). He gave an emphatic endorsement to the Junior High School scheme, as proposed for Oamaru. He considered that the projected arrangement was in the best interests of the children, and that the •alternative of higher elementary schools was a discredited notion. In discussing with a Wanganui Chronicle representative the unsuitability of the present railway crowing alarm bells, a local motorist stated that the best alarm arrangement he had seen in the course of his travels around the country was erected in the vicinity of Levin. The alarm, he explained was a sort of arjn which oscillated at the approach of a train. He Contended that the present system of warning (bells was absolutely useless, whereas the moving arm attracted attention immediately and gave a motorist ample time to pull up if the occasion warranted it. “I have heard that the tourist traffic into Canada has trebled during the past three years.,” stated Mr. John Myers (ex-president) in the course of a deputation from the Wellington Chamber oi Commerce to Ministers. The Prime Minister. Do you know the reason? America is dry and Canada is not. (Laughter). I don’t want tourists to come to New Zealand for that reason. When I was in Vancouver lairt, I was told that 10,000 people had come over at Christmas from America to spend their holidays there; and it was jocularly suggested that the reason was what I have stated.”

“Are there any fresh developments in cancer research at Home?” was a question asked of Dr. Miller of Palmerston North, who recently returned from a 12 months’ visit to Great Britain, by a Standard reporter. Well they seem to be getting on the right track of ■solving the problem,” replied the doctor. “They have introduced a new ray treatment known as the Erlanghen ray, which has great penetrative power. While this ray is not curative it has been found to be very beneficial, and the best results have been obtained from this treatment in conjunction with surgery. There are possibilities for the future that a cure might be found, not necessarily by the use of the ray but it might lead to something else.’’ The doctor added that, with regard to tuberculosis, patients were now being treated by electricity and the sun’s rays. They had a special electric bath and with regard to the sun ray treatment patients were exposed to the direct rays of the sun. This method had proved beneficial.

To-morrow (Thursdiay) St. Andrew’s annual spring flower show will be held in Inglewood Town Hail. In addition to classes for flowers there will be some for home cooking, etc., and some fancy and rummage stalls. The La Gloria gramophone stands pre-eminent amongst instruments. Mr. A. Asplin notifies that he has opened a gramophone parlour in premises next McNeill’s grocery, Devon Street East. The public should call and hear the splendid records on the La Gloria madhdnes.