LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16737, 19 May 1922, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

NEWS FROM NEAR AND FAR A meeting of the Canterbury Microscopical Society was held last night. The president, Dr T- Wyld Pairman, gave an address on ‘‘Recent Views on Origins.” “ I don't know how it is,” said the Hon J. G. Coates, at Eketahuna, “but people seem to think that because £5,000,000 has been raised in London it is all going to he splashed about. It is nothing of the kind. I have strictly to limit our expenditure and get a decent result for the money.” Owing to the continued wet weather the promoters of Playground Week for boys and girls in the school holidays have regretfully decided that tho demonstration must bo abandoned for the time being. This course has been taken to avoid the possibility of further disappointment to tho children who have been going to Sydenham Park each morning in the hope that the games might be taking place.

44 There is room in New Zealand for tens of thousands of people of the right class, but there is no very great prospect for people of the wrong cla-ssi” said Mr J. A. Frostick yesterday afternoon at the farewell social in honour of Mr A. W. Beavcn- Mr Frostick told Mr Beaven to say, when lie arrived in England, that this Dominion could do with plenty of immigrants willing to do their best. At the meeting of the Canterbury Education Board to-day, a further letter was received from tho Cashmere Hills School Committee asking for a direction on the question raised in October regarding the recital of the Lora's Prayer in the school- The board decided to reply expressing tho opinion that the amended by-law makes ample provision for the daily recital in schools of the Lord’s Prayer.

A jury man in a civil ease in the Supreme Court yesterday, soon after the hearing of the case was begun, complained that he felt unwell. He informed his Honor Mr Justioe Adams that he recently had been under an operation. His Honor excused him from serving on the jury and exempted him from service on other juries this session. With the consent of Counsel the case was continued before a jury of eleven.

Speaking before the Auckland Rotary Club at the weekly luncheon on Monday on “The Community As-

pect of Heart Disease,” states the “ Herald,” Dr E- B. Crimson said he felt strongly that the benefit to be derived from the advances occurring in medical science from time to time would not be fully reaped until the public was enlightened as to the bearing of such findings. An elementary knowledge on the part of the public of the fundamentals of disease, particularly in their bearing on preventive measures, would go far toward alleviating the distressing amount of general ill-health in the community. The conception of heart disease as an isolated condition in an otherwise healthy body was quite an erroneous one in most instances. The interdependence of the various organH of the body was daily becoming more evident, so much so that not infrequently heart symptom? developed which were found to owe their presence entirely to disease in other parts of the body. The importance of this from the heart standpoint was that by early treatment of the primary condition the heart symptoms disappeared, whereas if treatment were delayed permanent heart trouble resulted. A photograph to send each of your friends is the best, way to solve tho gift problem. Ix 4 Steffano Webb take it. Petersen’s Buildings, High Street. Telephone 1989. 1513 There’s no period of life in which tho changes are so rapid, the stages so interesting, or the memory so well worth keeping aft the period of childhood. Keep the record in a photograph. Begin with a portrait to-day. Wrigglesworih and Binns, 73S Colombo Street. ’Phono 1268. Xl>.