MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 14 May 1924, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

IPHTK, ILIAN AND N.Z. CARLE ASSOCIATION. .SOCIAL IIA'GIEXE CONGRESS. LONDON. May 12. AH the Dominions, sixty local authorities. tlmty-Mx national organisations and felt univor.-itic.x tire represent'd at the Imperial Social Hygiene Con. gross at AYeinbley. A week will lie spent ill the discussions of methods of combating venereal disease. The Hon. AYheatloy (Minister of Hemth) in opening the Congress, said theto were 101 treatment centres in England and AA’ales, in addition to 25 hostels fur women anil children, the whole costing £IOO.OOO annually. There were only 23.027 cases in 1023. as eompaied with 12.805 in 1020. There were nut' and a half million attendances at treatment centres annually. .«

Dr. Culi|iihoi:n stippoiTed on behalf of New Zealand and said it would he a long way before a trim bill of health was returned. Mel.A REX’S PROGRESS. DELHI, .May 13. ALieLaren has arrived at Masirabud. -TABBING AFFAIR AND SEQUEL. CAI’ETOAYN. May 13 Advices from Linireneo .Manpies report that a sensational alfair occurred at Rcssatm Gureia where .Main Loreira. the head ol the I’ortuguesc Customs Department was fatally stabbed by his native cook when he intervened in a violent Iptarrel between the cook and fellow seivants. Loreira was brought to I.oureneo .Mariptes where be died in the hospital. The residents of Ressano Garcia, infuriated by the nectirrenee took the native conk I font the gaol, heat him to death and threw his bodv into the river.