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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9112, 11 June 1908, Page 5

Some anxiety has been occasioned by the mysterious disappearance of a young man named George Arthur Blaca, a tailor by trade, who left his home in Napier for Wellington a few weeks ago, worked there for a few days, and then left the Coffee Palace in Cuba Street, where he had been staying, without explaining the reason of his departure, and leaving personal effects behind him. He had previously intimated his intention of going to the country to find employment, but no trace has been discovered of his whereabouts. He is the son of Mr John Black, employed as an engineer in the Napier gasworks. There is an impression growing up in the public mind that the Health Department wakes up duiing a "scare," relies on "scares," to justify its existence, and that in the interval it goes more or less to sleep'. For the Department's own sake, says the Christchurch "Press," it should endeavour to disabuse the public mind of this impression, and we can imagine no more effective way of doing so than the adoption of a. satisfactory system of medical oversight over the children attending school. In no other way could the Department do so much good, since i<; is infinitely better to keep out disease by improving the general stamina of the nation than by stamping out epidemics by isolation and disinfection, important as the latter work is in its place. For Children's Hacking Cough at night Woods' Great Peppermint Cure. 1/6 and 2/6.