LOCAL AND GENERAL.
In the Magistrate’B Court at Auckland yesterday Air Wilson, S.AI., imposed fines of £5 each on twenty-one stokehold hands for a strike on the Alokoia at the time of the jockeys’ dispute. Final decision had been deferred pending an appeal by one man previously convicted. Dr W. H. Symes, writing from Suva Hospital. Fiji, to a friend in Christchurch. states that he intends to visit Sydney and Brisbane and to return to Christchurch about Christmas. He adds: “I will go to Brisbane to study the filaria disease, which causes elephantiasis. Fifty-five per cent of the Fijians have filaria worms in their blood, and from five to ten per cent have elephantiasis. I have examined the blood of all the hospital patients in Suva. No remedy is known in Fiji at present, and an the disease is best understood in Brisbane, where it was first discovered by Dr Bancroft, I am going via Sydney before the weather becomes too hot. The disease originates in mangrove swamps which surround these islands, and it is conveyed by a mosquito known as Stegomya. It is by far tho worst disease in Fiji, which otherwise is one of the healthiest places in tho tropics; it is quite free from malaria.” It is being realised more than ever (says the Auckland “ Star ”) that if the war on rats in the city and suburbs is to be successful the most thorough methods of capturing the rodents will have to be adopted Recently, when the sun was still high in the heavens, and when the warm sunshine in the shady corners where the south wind did not reach was pleasant to the feelings, a number of gentlemen, well known to public life, were strolling round the back of tho Public Library, admiring the charming rose garden situated there. Great was their astonishment .to see running all through between the rose bushes numbers of sleeklooking, well-conditioned rats. They seemed to be gambolling in the sunshine, heedless of any thought of destruction, and taking little or no notice of the onlookers. A good terrier or a well-trained cat would have had a great time amongst the quiet little animals, who did not seem to know that war had been declared against them. A meeting convened by the Canterbury Football Association was held last night to consider a proposal to hold a gala to raise funds for the enlargement of English Park. Representatives of* the City and Suburban Cricket Association, Ladies’ Football Association and St Albans School Committee attended, and Mr R. English, president of the Football Association, explained the proposed scheme. It was hoped, he said, to enlarge English Park, so that it might be made available to all sports bodies, and be as great an asset to the community as Lancaster Park. The commercial travellers had promised to organise a fete to raise funds to clear the park of debt, and be thought if they' could get all the organised sports bodies to co-operate they would have no difficulty in raising a substantial sum. A provisional committee was set up to endeavour to obtain the support of other bodies and report at a later meeting. It was tentatively proposed that the gala should be held six months hence.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16584, 17 November 1921, Page 6
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