LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16732, 13 May 1922, Page 8

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

NEWS FROM NEAR AND FAR The Registrar of Industrial Awards for Christchurch, has received the general orders issued by the Arbitration Court dealing with the reductions in the ooet-of-livmg bonus. At the Holy Trinity Church, Avonside, next Thursday at 8 p.m., a grand organ recital will be given by Mr. Ernest Jamieson, (late of Napier Cathedral). Airs D. Meredith (soprano) and Miss M. Russell (contraito), will he the vocalists, and the church choir will also give an anthem. His Honour Mr. .Justice Reed, in addreGsing the jury at the Supreme Court in Wellington, laid stress on the infallibility of finger-print evidence, which was regarded as conclusive proof where the finger-prints were identified. Not only were finger-prints so identifiable, but those of almost any part of the body, Palm-prints were as unequivocally identifiable as finger-prints. Glass was probably one of tlie best mediums for retaining finger-printe. or any such polished surface, from which, by special methods, the prints were to be readily photographed.

Before Mr F. K- Hunt, S.M., at Wellington yesterday, a woman was convicted and ordered to pay costs for having offered a railway ticket for saleThe charge, said Senior Sergeant Dander, was laid under section 26 of the. Government Railways Act, 1908, and the penalty for the offence was £2O. The woman had come from Auckland on an excursion and had been persuaded bv friends in Wellington to remain with them until after the time ticket expired. She had advertised the ticket, which was a second return half, for sale in a local paper. This came to the notice of the authorities and she wae summoned. She stated she acted in ignorance of the law. Mr D. G. Sullivan, M.P., and Alesdnines W. S- Bean and M. Al’lntosh waited on the Heathcote. County Council last night and asked for a grant towards the fund for the civilian blind of New Zealand. Mr Sullivan said that the County Council might not give as much as the City Council, which granted £IOOO. hut he was sure that the ratepayers of the county would he willing for the council to do something, Airs Bean said that all that was asked was a little practical help Airs APlntosh made a general appeal on behalf of the object. It was decided to consider the request at next meeting, the chairman (Air W. W. Scarff) and Air C. Flavell saying that the council certainly would help.

At Auckland vesterday the Hofk C J. Parr referred to comments in a southern newspaper to the effect that the Health Department had not been doing anything in the way of experiments and treatment to cope with the goitre that has been making its appearance in the South Island. Air Parrsaid he had just received a report from Dr Wilkins (Director of School Hygiene) as follows:—“ An experiment in the treatment of goitre in school children by the administration of very small doses of iodine is being carried on by Dt Eleanor Baker, school medical officer, at Christchurch. Tt will, however, he necessary to study the effects of the treatment for a number of years before a decided pronouncment can be made as to the permanent results. A total of 596 children has been under treatment and observations have also been kept of 756 untreated children. So far the results are on the whole very satisfactory and the experiments have proved well worth while. That diminution in the siz>o of goitre occurs in a fair proportion of the coses treated, and only in a very few of those not treated, appears to be confirmed by results obtained in a similar experiment by Dr Gunn, school medical officer at Wanganui. As a result of extensive experiments in America and other countries treatment by small doses of iodine is the only method which has so far been shown to give beneficial results, yet the exact cause of the disease still remains obscure.” Air Parr said he was asking Dr Baker and Dr Hercus. of the Aiedical School at the University of Otago, who had been making investigations, to report specifically on their treatment, methods and experiments. A photograph to send each of your friends is the best way to solve the gift problem. Let Steffano Webb take it. Petersen's Buildings, High Street. Telephone 1989. 1613 There’s no period of life in which the changes are so rapid, the stages so interesting, or the memory so well worth keeping as the period of childhood. Keep the record in a photograph. Begin with a. portrait to-day. Wrigglesworth and Binns, 738 Colombo Street. ’Phono 1268. XD. “ big Ben ” and his family reduced I Messrs Hastie, Bull and Pickering announce reduced prices on Alarm Clocks. “Big fieri- - ’ now 22s 6d, Big Bon” Luminous 30s. “Jack <>’ Lantern” Luminous 20s. “ Sleep Motor” 13s 6d. “Good Morning - 10 s. Pocket Ben 9s