AUSTRALIAN

Hokitika Guardian, 11 May 1922, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. fiAni.E ASSOCIATION EFFECTS OF THOPICAL LIFE. (Received this day at 8.30 a.m.) SA ON ICY. May 11 Giving evidence before the Commonwealth Works Committee, Professor Priestly declared from several years personal experience there uas no evidence of determination in health through living in a tropical climate in Australia. Investigations, particularly with children from seven to fourteen years of age yielded no evidence of physical determination. Five hundred who were examined compared favourably with those horn any other part of Australia. There was generally a pallor complexion, but it was thought this was only skin deep. It was a myth that residence in the tropics caused the blood to become thin. In hot countries tendency was for the blood to get away from the skin and perspiration might cause a thickening. There was no doubt that particularly among women, the skin became much coarser in the tropics. Prof. Priestly added that women living in the tropics had extiemelv hard times, owing to domestic disabilities. Children examined up to the third generation, showed no deterioration, Thcie was an absence in Australia of neatly all the tropical diseases found in other countries.

AA’ORLD TRADE EXHIBITION. PERTH, M.\v 11. ! According to advices received, the j steamer British Trader, which will s-.c- i commodate the British- win Id trade ex- j hihition,reaches F reman He about 17th j July. After visiting Adelaide, .Mel- \ bourne and Hobart, the steamer pvo- . <eeds to New Zealand. j TRANSPORTED FOR LIFE. [ SYDNEY, Alny 10. It transpires that two prisoners on | board a French steamer, who were ■ convicted of military offences in France j nnd were sentenced to life, transporta- j tion ot New Caledonia. I COLD WEATHER. j SYDNEY, Alay 11. Cold weather has been experienced in the highlands. Many places are below freezing point. The lowest readings were twenty degrees at Nimityhedle and Random. j DANGER TO SHIPPING. : SYDNEY, May 11. I The Fiona reported by radio having passed floating wreckage dangerous to i navigation, en route from Auckland to I Sydney. The wreckage consisted of six baulks of timber attached to planking j with an iron frame in one corner. )t j was situated 330 miles north-east ol I Sydney. I PILLAGING EVIL. SYDNEY, Alay 11 Air Oakes proposes to convene a conference of all parties concerned, with the object of minimising the pillaging evil.