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Waipa Post, Volume 32, Issue 1782, 13 July 1926, Page 6

Speaking in connection with the amount of sickness w r hich at present exilsts, a Morrinsville doctor expressed the opinion that what he termed the “ big fuss ” the newspapers were making concerning the number of pneumonic cases was making the public unnecessarily nervous. A large amount of the prevalent influenza, he said, was called pneumlonia, but the most common complaint was not pneumonia at all, and! be did know of any serious cases of pneumonia in y Morn'insville at preiyjit There was a little wave of influenza coming from the south, but it was nothing serious. Considering the time of the year, when there is usually a large amiount of sickness, the doctor said there was less illness than, there usually is. What was serious, however and more important than the influenza, was the prevalence of whooping cough among the children of the town and district Star.

An English paper says: “ The opportunities now afforded young men of obtaining som-e insight into the underlying principles of agriculture, enabling them to make more and fuller use of experience, is bound to have its effect in creating a generation of farmers who will not only be anxious to branch out on new methods and -with new ideas, but will realise the importance of business principles in the farming industry. It must be admitted that the average farmer at the present time is not a really good business man; he is far more interested in producing good crops and good cattle than he is in selling his produce. One has only :to 'think of the haphazard method of sending produce off on commission,- of the carelessly-made contracts, of the hopeless method of selling cattle in many markets, to realise how much the farmer would gain by the application of strict business methodis to farming. Yet, after all, it is a much more absorbing study to produce a good, crop or a good horse than to consider how to make the last penny out of a selling transaction.