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Hokitika Guardian, 12 July 1922, Page 3

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Messrs M. Houston and Co. announce | the ,sale at Wararoa on Thursday. July 1 20th.. on behalf oi Mrs -A. Rich.aidsou. of the valuable farm property at j W: tare a known as lot I oi the Hdura- , tjon Reserve with all appointments. I and together with the whole of tho| stock etc. Full particulars appear in ibis issue. Infectious and ether diseases report- ! ml in the Canterbury-West Coa-t j Health District during the week elided Monday totals 27 as follows: North Canterbury: Scarlet fever (i; diphtheria 1: j tuberculosis. 1): pneumonic influenza 1 ; ophthalmic lieoiiatoriom 1. Innngahnn. diphtheria 1. Westland: poliomyelitis, I. Ashburton: tuliermlosis. 2; pneumonia 1. South Canterbury: diph- i theria, 1. The Cnited team to play Kiwis on j Saturday consists of- I’. Cutlmsh, Kor- j tegast, J. O’Connor, J. Cutlmsh, Diedriclt, Willoughby. Askew. Coglnn Gif- : ford, C. Cutbusii, Wells. Duncan. Me- • Mannaway, Glass. Emergencies Lynch W. Breeze, Men/.ies. Itoeh. Practice oil j Thursdav night at 7.311 o’clock at Drill , Shod. j Two eases of neuritis of the hand, j caused by wearing tight wristlet ! watches, have been treated lie l)r J. S. li. Siopford. professor of anatomy at. the I'nivorsity of Manchester. One' was a student who for weeks had fell a • tingling pain along the inner border of ■ the hand, tile side, opposite the thumb. ■ The other patient, a. woman, complaincd of a similar tingling and pain in the lingers. In both eases Dr Stopfnrd found that ti'dit wristlet watches had compressed a nerve against the lower end of the ulna, the hone on the fittl" linger side of tlie arm. When the wristlets were discarded the discomfort Hisappeared. Mr J. V. Hall has reliiniuished the [ license of the Occidental Hotel to Mrs , C. Glass, who has now taken charge. Mr Hall has now opened up in business as a general dealer in premises Revel] Street, opposite the Hosnital Board ! rooms, and is prepared to deal to suit ! nil pockets in furniture and every des- : eription of goods. Inspection is invit- : ed n.nd all eiuniiries will he promptly , attended to. A Wellington correspondent reports-

.—The second cut having been made in j the bonus of the Civil Service employees, the Minister of Education is now required to make a reduction in the salaries of teachers. A draft scltein ' for the various branches has been prepared by the Minister who now proposes, as he did on the previous occasion, to consult with the representatives of primary, secondary and technical school teachers ns to the fairest methods of applying the cut suggested in the draft.