LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19814, 4 December 1919, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

, There was a good attendance at tho St John Ambulance Association’s rooms last evening, when a demonstrative lecture on influenza and the treatment of patients was given. Mr M’Kinney, assistant commissioner of the brigade, introduced the two ladies who carried out th 0 demonstration, Mrs Whittaker, lady superintendent of tho Nursing division, and Mrs Smith, who assisted her. A very complete, practical explanation of the treatment of patients was given, and the various methods of doalmg with the disease were keenly followed by tho brigade members' and their friends. Tho formation of an electric power board for Banks Peninsula is being steadily completed, and a Bill defining the boundaries is in the hands of solidtors, ana would h&ve beon completed by now but for questions that have been asked regarding a small portion of Diamond Harbour which was purchased by the Lytte ton Borough Council for a harbour suburb. This portion will have to be excluded from the power hoard area, which will include only Akaroa, Mairewa and .Mount Herbert counties but tho readjustment board cannot bo set up until tho Bill is passed but the committee continues meanwhile. Hundreds of Christchurch citizens have been cured by Dr Fellow’s Pile Conesi when every other known remedy has failed. Price 3s 6d box, from chemists, or direct. Loasby and Cochemists (opp. Ballantyne’s). X There is one intimate, personal gift that carries with it the real spirit of Christmas—your own portrait. Let atefiano VI ebb make it Petersen’s Buildings, High Street. ’Phone 1989 X Ladies know them to have no equal. Martin’s Apiol and Steel Pills. Sold by all Chemists and Stores throughout Australasia. X

_ Many expressions of gratitude for assistance given in obtaining payments from the Government of moneys due to them, are contained in letters received from time to time by the Citizens’ Defence Corps, from soldiers ana soldiers’ dependants. Among a recent batch of such letters were several from tho West Coast,. A correspondent, writing from Greymouth, after thanking the Citizens’ Defence Corps for supplying certain information and asking tor advice in regard to fines on active service being remitted, and for a few forms of application for the children’s retrospective allowances, states that “ it is a regrettable fact that we West Coasters can get practically no information, and most of the returned soldiers hero arc ignorant of the benefits due to them.” The officer in charge of the Citizens’ Defence Corps states that he is quite as willing to supply any information to people on the West' Coast as to those in Canterbury, on all matters affecting soldiers’ interests.