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Hokitika Guardian, 19 November 1923, Page 2

So.mk pa i fiettlars referring to the Christmas meeting of the Westland Baling Club, appear in thi- issue. The local Club is one ol oi'r ihlel institutions at holiday times in attracting visitors to the ] hue. This year it is excelling it sell by offering a programme of f-c-.'.-i’d proportions. The local C luh was the first on the 'Coast io hit tin £2,Out! math I’m two days' slakes. On j 1;•- coming orea.sion it tetv. lies L2, 125. another p oind for a two days' galloping meeting. the Club has its course ami appointments in excellent older, am: Irom all accounts, the F.xliiliitit n meeting, as this summer's event will he. is going to lie patronised by an unusually latgc inllux ol visitors. Ihe Club needs all the good fori line whiili ran attend it. It has had it- struggles and difficulties, and although the days of difficulty ate not past yet, the Club continues to face the future with every confidence. Certainly, good fortune has been well earned. The visitors will find themselves well catered for til the i a recourse. 3 lie track and conveniences ii'n in liist class order, and the course improved in every way should eater exceedingly well lor the large fields which it is expected wili face the harrier for each event.

In a recent publication ‘‘Tin* Conquest of Cancer,” Dr. Hebert Bell, superintendent in charge el' Cancer Beesaich. Battersea Hospital, declares that in its investigations concerning the causes et this disease, ami in the treatment thereof. the medical profession is 011 tile wrong scent. Statistics indicate that the incidence of the scourge is increasing at tut alarming rate. Jt lias been suggested that the increase may be, in part, ap] aront rather than real. With the improvement in diagnosis, eases are nowadays identified which formerly would have boon undetected. But Dr. Bet) scouts this idea, lb- insists that surgical operations are valueless, and that tin* knife has tended io add to the (loath rate from cancer instead of reducing it. lie claims that lie hits definitely established the fact that earner is a disease of the blood. It “is entirely due to the ascendancy of ammoniaoal products over the natural vegetable salts in the blood stream.” It (is caused h,v improper diet', partioularly by meat and by cooked food, and Dr. Bell asserts that by his method of treatment many cotn- ] loro cures have been effected. Oi course, this is it subject upon which the layman ;s not eompi tent to express any opinion whatever. But certainly in the interests of suffering humanity, anything that promises relief should he thoroughly tested.

Ok Saturday, it very impel taut business deal wits completed when Newman Bros., I.fd.. of Nelson. Blenheim, Westport, and Hoefton. purchased the motor business of Clements Motors Ltd., so I well and favorably established in llmti,tika. The deal is one of the largest I put through I iciilly ami is an imlieaJ Don of outside public confidence in the tntute of tit's town and Westland generally. Mr Clements is to he congratulated 111:011 his success here rn so short a 1 cried in which he has built up so valuable a service. IDs w<nk| reflects itself throughout the district j | which must have henehi tod greatly ny ■ tlte repute of tit.- reliable service he organised ami inaugurated. Ihe further benefit now to tin' town iosottant from Newman Bros, throwing in their lot here ran he hardly anticipated. The firm has a dominion reputation and a connection which will ensure the touii-t attractions being wider known thin ever. In the latter connection Mr Clements inis done a very great deal in advertising the district nil through New Zealand and his expenditure in that work must have been considerable, and no small benefaction to the place. Ihe fine garage built here has proved a useful undertaking, for it expressed the solidity of the motor traffic in 'Westland, and must have been no small factor in attracting the attention of Newman Bros, to the possibilities of the district in regard to further trade expansion. Hokitika's times ttv now falling in very pleas-aut davs.