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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 57, 1 December 1920, Page 10

Speaking at a meeting of tho South African Institutoof Medical Researches # at Johannesburg, Sir Sponcor Lister claimed to have discovered an anti-pneumonic vaccine, winch had greatly reduced the mortality amongst Knilir workers m tho un'nes, and had also cured two cases of sleeping sickness, the patients being soldiers who had served in East Africa, and had become infected with that disonsc. The treatment is drastic and prolonged, and consists of serum injections.

Tho shortage of British chinawaro in New Zealand does not seem likely to bo remedied for some time to come. The New Zealand representatives of ono largo group of British manufacturers report that orders dating back as long ago as two years still remain unfilled, wtnlo latest advices indicate that it is hopeless to look for oarly delivery of orders. A specimen of the class of-replics received to urgent appeals for delivery is quoted as follows:—"If time is the essenco of thocontract, we must decline Die order, but l)v waiting a year you may receive at least a portion." Not only 10 it difficult to secure delivery, but prices are stated to bo still moving upward. ,