LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Franklin Times, Volume 9, Issue 620, 1 April 1921, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The official report of the Prefecture of Police, i\giviiig the crime statistics for Paris during 1920, shows that of 25,027 men and women arrested during the past twelve months 4033 were foreigners.

Mr Kenneth Eady, of the well-known Auckland Piano Warehouse, 474 Queen Street (near Karangahape Road), has a business announcement in this issue, which should keenly interest piano buyers.

At the Te Aroha Athletic Club’s sports on Easter Monday, Mr J. A. Maloney, formerly, of Pukekohe, but now of Wharepoa, won the Easter Handicap of 120 yards off the 12 yards’ mark, and the President’s Handicap of 220 yards off the 20 yards’ mark. In the 100 yards open, handicap Maloney finished seconA to P. Garvin in °lO seconds. X “Direct Sales,” the lished at 9-10 Warwick Queen Street, Auckland, is revolutionising prices of ladies’ costumes, onepiece frocks, overcoats, etc, also men’s suits, rain-coats, etc. The firm deals direct with the public, cutting out all intermediate profits, and it claims to save buyers from 50 to 75 per cent. ' See announcement on first page.

Observations made simultaneously from stations far apart have proved that the average meteor, when first seen, is about 80 miles above the surface of the earth, and disappears from view at 30 miles. In other words it travels 50 miles before the atmospheric friction burns it up. This friction, it is reckoned, raises it to a temperature of something like three million degrees, so that, unless of large size, it has no chance to reach our planet.

A marriage ceremony was to have been conducted at the Congregational Church, Manly, Queensland, recently, blit it came to a sensational ending about half way through the service, when the bride, Eleanor Bagsiag, collapsed at the altar, and was removed to her home, where she died an hour later. The bridegroom was George Ciawford. Many friends of the parties were present when the bride collapsed. It was thought that she was only in a fainting fit, but, as deceased rapidly grew worse, she was removed to her home. Medical aid was quickly obtained, but the bride passed away despite every attention. She was well known in Manly, and was universally popular.

The compulsory use of gauze face masks was a feature of the precautions taken in Australia against the spread of the influenza epidemic. Health authorities have not" been convinced of the efficacy of this precaution, and their doubts are confirmed by recent researches in the United States. Describing their experiments in the American Journal of Public Health, W. H. Kellogg and Miss G. MacMillan state that : (1) Gauze masks exercise a certain amount of restraining influence on the number of bacteria-laden droplets possible of inhalation ; (2) this influence is modified by the number of layers and fineness of mesh of the gauze; (3) when a sufficient degree of density in the mask is used to exercise a useful filtering influence breathing is difficult and leakage takes place around the edge of the mask; (4) this leakage around the edge of the mask and the forceable aspiration of droplet-laden air through the mask is sufficient to make the possible reduction in dosage of infection not more than 50 per cent, effective. Masks have not been demonstrated to have a degree of efficiency that would warrant their compulsory application for the cheeking of epidemics.

,An interesting and original! article appears in our correspondence column dealing with the financial outlook from a farmer’s point of view. It should be read by our farmer readers.

The Franklin A. and P. Society’s Winter Show will be held on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, May 18th, 19th, 20th, and 21st, instead of June, as previously advertised.

If you want to know of a first-class dyer and French dry cleaner try J. G. Peat, of Eden Terrace, Auckland (2 minutes from Symond’s Street). He has had thirty years’ experience, and never fails to please. Mr Peat has a business announcement on page 1 of this issue.

Preparations for the taking of the census as from the night of the 17th18th April are complete, and every possible precaution has been taken to facilitate the accurate filling-up of the schedules. “Read carefully the instructions,” is the advice given to householders and others, who are under an obligation to correct replies to questions. A single error in each schedule becomes hundreds of thousands in the total.