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Hokitika Guardian, 18 November 1920, Page 3

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Mr E. A. Wells inserts a notice of thanks to the electors, in this issue. The family of the latent Mrs Shaffrey insert a notice of thanks in this issue. Mr L. H. Morel, M.C.C. returns thanks in this issue for his re-election to to Westland County Council as a representative of the Central Riding. In a return recently published by the British Controller-General of Civil Aviation, it is stated that for the eleven months from May last year to March 1920, no less than 67,940 passengers were and 102,778 pounds of goods. The approximate mileage was 691.859. In all this flying, four pilots, one passenger, and one “third party” were killed. It is not generally known, hut it is a proved fact, that the stamen or yellow centre" of the arum lily is deadly poison. Parents who are in the habit, of growing the lily are warned not to allow their children to cat -the yellow centre. Children are in the habit of picking out this yellow substance and depositing it in the mouth. It has a rather sweet taste, and once they have tasted it they generally go for more. Recently Kenneth Lewis Spilsbury, the infant son of Mr and Mrs John SP‘Lbury, Onewhero, succumbed as a result of poisoning. It appears that the little fellow and his sister, aged about three years, ate the stamen of the arum lily. The children became ill, with the result that the child, aged about 22 months, succumbed.