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Waipukurau Press, Volume XIV, Issue 45, 19 April 1930, Page 6

Without instructive publicity there would be little progress achieved for medicine. Publicity secures funds for splendid work. The public will not respond too readily if the medical profession breaks silence only -when it wants money for obstetrical instruction and cancer research. And, most important, of all. lucid statements by medical experts on diseases and the prevention of disease would do more than anything else could do to dissuade foolish, if hopeless sufferers from torturing themselves with quack poisons and concoctions or with kerosene. Let the next portrait of a. physician who says or does something worth while bo tagged with the appreciative note: “Here is a sensible man.’’ —Auckland “Sun.” A dog sat in the dicky seat of a motor car which was coming into town from Island Bay (says the Dominion). His owner had carefully chained him there. Something on the road attracted him and out he leaped. The car was travelling at a good pace, and the pet was immediately pulled off his feet and dragged in the wake of the vehicle. Another motorist following seeing what had happened sounded his horn to attract the attention of the owner of the dog. Unfortunately the meaning of the signal was mistaken. To the driver of the leading car the sound of the horn came as a challenge. It was taken as an intimation that the one be- : hind wanted to be in front; and to his ' mind it was a challenge. Down wont the accelerator and up went the speed, until the unlucky animal was dragged 'to death.