LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Franklin Times, Volume 9, Issue 698, 10 January 1922, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

On Thursday afternoon at 3 p.m„ there will he a childreni’s ticket hunt v the public park for two Chautauqua tickets.

Speaking to an audience at Eketahuna recently, Dr Truby King stated that alongside every school there should be a swimming pond. No 'O'or exercise conduces so much to

1 md fitness. In the North Island bathing’ should continue the year round ; in the South Island for six or eight months of the year.

Mrs C. M. McConnell, quality drapery house, Papakura, adveretises on page 2 a number of specials for this week, Ladies should compare prices.

At the recent shoot held in Pukekohe between the Waiuku and Pukekohe Gun Clubs, the Waiuku publican threw out a challenge to the Pukekohe publicaan to shoot for five birds. Mr Gardes took some persuading, but eventually took up the challenge, and won with the possible, getting five birds. The Waiuku man — popular Larry Dunn—got the possible the other wUy round, not hitting one bird.

A splendid racing pictorial souvenir is afforded in last week’s issue of the Sporting and Dramatic Review, the meetings covered embracing the recent caranivals of the Auckland Racing Club, the Auckland Trotting Club, the Taranaki Jockey Club, and the Manawatu Racing Club. Two fine double, pages are devoted to hunting in Gisborne, and the miscellaneous section stands out conspicously merit 3nd variety.

“That New Zealand has no representative in New York city is a matter of regret,” said a recent visitor to the Dominion. “Australia is represented in the person of Mr Sheldon. This representation covers many points and gives Australia a status which New Zealand lacks. During the whole four months I was in the city, New Zealand was never mentioned in the Press excepting an in association with Australia, and then in such a way as to foster the common belief that it was a paht of Australia. Our growing trade relations warrant representation, whilst the wonderful resonurces of this Dominion in minerals, climate and scenic beauty deserve mention in a country so full of enterprise and ambition.”

Sir James Allen (says the Post’s London correspondent) was asked by the New Zealand Ministry of Health to make inquiries with regard to M. Spahlinger’s treatment of tuberculosis. He was unable to obtain much satisfaction from the authorities in London but while in Geneva he paid a visit to theSpahlinger Institute, which has been establishment for the production of the serum and vaccine which play the principal part in this particular treatment. It is claimed that the resum, which takes five years to produce, is capable of curing the disease, and the vaccine, which takes six months to make, is claimed to be a prevention of tuberculosis if applied in the same way as lmyph for smallpox. Sir James has sent out a full report concerning his investigations in Geneva, and has also j forwarded samples of the vaccine and the serum.