CHRISTCHURCH NEWS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18140, 14 December 1928, Page 8

CHRISTCHURCH NEWS

(From Our Own Correspondent.) CHRISTCHURCH, Dec. 13. HEALTH WEEK. Health week gives promise of being one of the most unhealthy weeks experienced.. .The scarlet fever notifications have gone down to-day, but colds and influenza are filling the gaps. Wednesday was a true winter's nay, and Thursday has not shown much improvement. Rain has fallen incessantly all day, sometimes in a light drizzle and occasionally very heavily. Everybody is heartily tired of the bad weather and hopes are entertained that to-morrow will see an improvement. The city is well soaked and the country is waiting anxiously for a 1 spell of fine weather. Already people are beginning to wonder what the week-end will be Tike, especially as there has been a succession of wet Saturdays. The New Brighton Trotting Club especially has an anxious mind on the subject in view of its Anniversary Day meeting on Saturday and Monday. Four cases of scarlet fever were reported to-day, one being fromi Timaru Borough. RADIO LICENSES. Licenses for radio receiving sets are very necessary. At least that is now doubtless the view of no fewer than. 26 persons who were fined in the Magistrate’s Court this morning for being without them. • Many excuses were given by the delinquents.' Here are a few: —“My husband has been out of work for a long time and we have no money to get one. We have had to take our set down.” “I lost the receipt for my last one and didn’t know 7 when I had to renew it.” “I only put it up for election night.” • In prosecuting one woman who did not appear, the Inspector said that on his first visit to her he had seen an aerial. The woman had said that there was nothing attached to it and she had refused him admission. He told her to take the aerial down. “The next time I called the aerial was still there.” The inspector continued: “She held me up at the door for five minutes and I heard the sound of furniture being shifted around.” Tho woman, who did not appear, was fined 20s and costs. “Tell me if she comes up again, said the Magistrate, “and if she has taken the aerial down I’ll have to let her off I suppose ?” “I have a letter from this man saying that he is blind,” said tho Magistrate, when a name was called. It is a, point worthy of note by all concerned that a- blind man, if he is the head of a family, is exempt from license fees. Fines in today’s cases ranged from 5s and costs up. A BIG CAMP. Tlie Seventh Day Adventists opened their big canvas camp at the show grounds to-day. There was a big ralh ot Adventists, who bore cheerfullv enough with the adverse conditions. The camp will last for a week. RETTRING MEDICAL MAN. Dr J. G. Blackmore who is shortly retiring from his position as head of the consumption santorium, was the guest at a unqiue gathering to-night patients, and foamier patients uniting to do him honour. There were representatives from all parts of the Dominion, and eloquent tributes were p«’d to the doctor, who is held in the h t-fiest esteem by all who are under his care. Later oil there will be a publio presentation from the citizens.