HEALTH REPORT. BOXING.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 12775, 20 October 1919, Page 7

HEALTH REPORT.

BOXING.

CANTERBURY. DISTRICT,

The following is the .bi-'weokly bulletin of influenza cases for the Canterbury Health District, issued a.t noon to-day: North Canterbury: Throe, all mild; one Avouside, one Christchurch, one Kanpriora.

South Canterbury: One. ■virulent type, at Washdyke. Other dis-.ricte; Nil Deaths, nil. The following weekly bulletin of infection;’. diseases was issued at noon today ; luangahua: Pneumonia, one. Orc-y; Pneumonia, one ; tuberculosis, two. North Canterbury: Scarlet fever, five. diphtheria, eleven, tuberculosis, five; pneumonia, nine; influenza, eight; measles, seven. Ashburton: Diphtheria, one; enteric, one; tuberculosis, ono; measles, two. South Canterbury: Scarlet fever, four; diphtheria, eight; influenza, one' Total: Sixty-seven.

NEW ZEALAND COUNCIL

, A meeting of t-ho committee c£ the New Zealand Hosing Council wdas held ca i’riuii.v, Mr J. ii, Evans posidiag. I'ho executive reported that the following permit, a to pronto to proiessicnal champion* ships had been granted :—Northern Aeeccsh.-t-i»m A. Pooiey and G. Modricn, heavyweight; Wellington Association, j), Murphy and .I. Hoeney, middle-weight; Westport Aofioeiation, L. Robinson and J. O’Neill, fer.tr.er-weiglit.

Lao fcc-vetary presented correspondence frctu the Grcviuouth Association and the Northern Association, and his replies thereto rn connection with the light-weight, championship, also correspondence in connection with the registrations o; the Westport and Dennis-ton Associations. The correspondence was received.

was receive-! from the Northern Association, agreeiing to remc-va pro-war disqualificitioas imposed by t-ho association. Front tho YVellington Association, on tho same subject, stating that it did not favour tho general removal of disqualifications. The secretary was instructed to eocj-mumoa-to further with tho Wellington. A*sociahon on the matter.

Reports were received from several of the asaociatjoT.s bearing on the subject of the engagement of an Australian instructor ro* rently brought forward by the Ofaco Association. It was decided to forward tho reports to tho Otago Association, ca tho matter was one that was beyond tho scope of tho council's functions.

The Whansarei Association applied for permission to promote n contest for the foatber-w-Mght professional chamnionshiti. The sceretarv was instnicted to eommuuicafe m:1;i ti>e Westport and YVhungaxei Associations on the FUtlert.

On tho application of the .South Canfethuty Association, C. O’Conor wa® roir.Btcted as an amaleur.

Tco GPeymouth Association applied for permission to match tho winner of the CookCallaway contest -asrainat M. .Tames for the lieht-wrieht championship. It war decided that fuller Informsiticn was require'! Ixifcre tho permit oould be granted. Tire Southland Association wrote, asking for the council's reading of tho title relating to a competitor being counted out ca tho result of a blow which, in his oninlon. was a foul. Too correspondence stated that the competitor had Wived a claim for a foul immediatelv ho was in a position to do so, hut that the referee refused to accept it cm tho ground that the claim ehnn'd have been made before tho competitor left the ring. The courier dem-Wt r>--t *W -’cronst iter's claim was in order, and should have been accepted hv t-c referee.