LIFE’S LITTLE WANTS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 22 May 1928, Page 4

LIFE’S LITTLE WANTS.

Leprosy Cure. jLr Leprosy, the most dreaded.-offdiseas-es, has at last been conquered by .British scientists. After ten years’ investigation it has been found that hydnocarpus oil, obtained from the fruit of tho hydnocarpus tree —a native of southeast Asia —is a cure for the disease. In five years the number of cases will have diminished enormously, and In ten years it is believed the disease will be almost extinct. Stations for the treatment of leprosy with hydnocarpus oil are to be started all over the Empire in places- where the disease is rife. * * • • ' An Oversight.

Jones started . the day l?adly by smashing liis favourite c-orn against tho the bed-post. At breakfast he was like a roaring lion. The porridge was atrocious—the eggs* phew! —the toast resembled a cinder- —and so on. still his wife retained her sercnityiß| At last Jones was ready to §g. He slammed his hat on his head, and, without his usual morning kiss, loft the house; but he only got about ten yards when his wife -called him back. “Well, what is it?” he barked, thinking she was expecting t-o be kissed. “Darling,” she cooed, “you have “ forgotten something.” “Oh, have I? Well, what is it?” “Darling,” and. her smile would have thawed an Eskimo, “you have forgotten to slam the door.” ’V* » . • • f Publicity for Heeney. Tom Heeney is to furnish the subject cf the latest “stunt” by the New Zealand Government Publicity Office. Outside the ring, as well as inside, Heeney is to be used to gain attention for the Dominion. The move just made by the Publicity Office is the taking of a series of shots which are to form film of Tom Heeney’s Two cameramen have just visit to Gisborne for the purpose, and the film is now being edited. It will leave New Zealand on the 22nd of this month, and will go straight to New York, where arrangements will be made to release it all over the United States before the coming fight for the world’s heavyweight boxing championship. Scenes about Gisborne, Heeney’s mother ami father at their home, and the ; where -Heeney learned to fight form sequences in the picture. The whole enterprise was conducted so quietly that residents of Gisborne mistook the cameramen for Americans.

Substantial Fees,

A fee of £53,000, with a ‘ 1 refresher of £2OO a day during the three months that he will be away, is to be paid to Sir Leslie Scott, K.C., M.P., ’for work which ho has undertaken in India, says the “Daily Mail.” His total earnings for the three months will therefore ho more than £70,000 —believed to be easily a record fee received by any barrister. Sir Leslie Scott left London on December 29th to advise thAjpdian Slates and princes as to their and constitutional positions with rejfyrd tq the Statutory Commission, and as tejp the evidence which they are to lay be-! fore it. Sir Leslie Scott was General in 1922, and is- one of the bestknown K.C.’s at the bar. Among other large fees paid to English barristers for work in Asia was the £10,500 received bv Air Barrington Ward, K.'C., in 1923, for successfully defending a Bagdad merchant accused of instigating a murder. In 1875, Sergeant Bal- • lantine received a similar fee for defending the Gaekwar of Baroda on a charge of attempting to poison Colonel Phavre, the Resident. * * * # Items of Interest. The sugar beet subsidy cost England £5,400,000 last year. The industry finds employment for 8400 men. ft f • # Keeping the London Zoo going: costs about £13,000 a year for food An elephant can be fed for aboutL£l2o a year. # • • • “Growing pains” in children are thtff first warnings of rheumatism, according to the British Ministry of Health experts. The 10-inch guns mounted on H.M.S. Nelson, the latest British battleship, aie 67ft long, and fire shells weighing 24611 b each. * * * • Roof drying-rooms for use on washing day are one of the novel features of fiats now being built by the London County Council. * * * * Machines which, in addition to dating and issuing tickets, also give the necessary change for one shilling or sixpence dropped into a slot, are latest innovation of the London derground Railway. * * * * The candle fish, found in the riverK mouths off the Northern Pacific co^f of North America, is so naqAi because of its extreme oiliness Sc flesh. The Indians convert them into candles by inserting a wick through the length of the body.