PARALYSIS PRECAUTIONS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 69, 8 April 1937, Page 7

PARALYSIS PRECAUTIONS

"HUMANE."

(To the Editor.) Sir, — With much interest, a deal of amusement, and a tinge of contempt I ioad Mr Stephenson's letter regarding infantile paralysis in to-night's issue of your publication. One does not require to be a Sherlock Holmes nor a Dr. Wataon to arrive at a eorrect diagnosis of Mr Stephenson's trouble. Evidently he is sulfering from an acute attack of anti-Government paralysis. How paltry to endeavour to make political capital out of earnest and honest endeavour, baeked by local medical opinion, to check the ravages of dread infantile paralysis. How futile to check excursionists when all day, and every day, trains, cars, lorries and planesf are arriving, and have been arriving, since the outbreak of the epidemic, disgorging their thousands of travellers, their hundreds of travelling players, their cireuses, and their thousands of tons of freight from all quarters of the country, an'd from overseas. Or would Mr Stephenson have the Government put a stop to all traffict And if this were d'one, I wonder what kind of an anti-Government howl he would let loose. ; I consider Mr Stephenson should give the authorities credit for doing what little they can do to stop the spread of this dread scourge. Also, he should endeavour to realise that it is hia child, as well as my child, that they are endeavouring to protect insofar as it liea in their power to do so. And, in conclusion, I would Suggsst that Mr Stephenson ask himself this question: "What more could any Government do?" — Yours, etc.,

Hastings, April 7.

"For ladies only"! Railway people say carriages labelled thus- — originally provided because so many ladies preierred to keep themseives to themselves When travelling— are no longer popular with members of the gentler sex who when making their reservations now generally book seats in the smoking compartments of long distance trains, Many do so, doubtless, because they intend to smoke themselves; but others simply because they "love" the aroma of tobacco. Well, there 's seldom anything offensive in tobacco smoke now, owing to the fact that smokers prefer iu. the great majority of cases, brande far superior to those formerly in vogu-e. For this ehange in the public taate "toasted" is utiquestionably largely responsible, as the evergrowing demand for the iive famous (and only genuine) toasted brauds, Cut Plug No. 10 (Bullshead), Cavendish, Navy' Cut No. 3(Bulldog), Riverhead Gold and Desert Gold, so conclusively proves. These are not ouly the purest tobaecos — being toasted — but the most soothing and delicious. But as there are various worthleSs imitations on the market caution in buying is advisable.#