HOME HEALTH GUIDE

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 8, Issue 28, 28 November 1944, Page 5

HOME HEALTH GUIDE

(By the Department of Health) How about doing something about those flies this summer? We all know they are an ugly menace, to healthy and we admit that .they should be exterminated but too main.y of us just let it, go at} that. The, war against flies is not waged with sufficient determination. If it were the toll of our summer diseases would be cut down considerably. Typhoid feve.r s worms "summer sickness ' tubercu'f 9 loses—a fly may slip , one of these diseases your Avay any time. Perhaps if one could see an enlarged picture of the staggering collection of filth and germs that, n single fly harbours, it would startle one into doing something about it. This is a cunning little habit of the fly that many p'eople probably have not heard about: When a £y alights on any it first vomits moisture on it to soften it before eating, and while it feeds it usually excretes. That moisture is germladen. The best way to tackle the fly is lo prevent it from breeding. Keep your rubbish in properly covered tins don't have any lying around. Keep compost, heaps protected (they are favoured breeding spots). See that all foodstuffs are completely protected. Use recognised sprays liberally and other fly .such as milk and water (a pint) with an ounce of formalin placed ir. shallow receptacles.; Here's another way: Mix five parts of castor oil with eight par Is of resin. Melt and smear on glazed paper' or wires and leave where they >vill do the most good. The, wires can be burned -clear and used again.; cent was good land. Sixty-pine blocks would be ready by next sea- v son and some blocks in this district would be ready very early. , : Negotation was the method used when it was , the: Government's, desire to buy parts of large estates and only in one case had it been necessary to apply section 51 of the Act whereby land could be taken over compulsorily. 6600 acres had been bought by 4018 applications had been receded by the department for the ti&Tisfer of land but only in 58 caseshad recommendations been given by Rehabilitation Committees. Mr Skinner also remarked that it was contrary to fact that the Land Sales Act had reduced the. sale of properties * as the average was the same over the last live years. It was interesting to note that any cost over and above, the productive value, of these lands which were being brought in for settlement would be met by the department.. Farms had been offered to the department at £2 and £3 per acre but it was very posr land. Good land at £60 peracre was cheaper than this land at £2 to £3 per acre said Mr Skinner. The Government had up to the present spent £4 million on Rehabilitation. The Minister concluded that it was the task of everyone, to see that the returned man was properly rehabilitated. After the meeting supper was en* joyed at the. Central Grill rooms*