INFANTILE PARALYSIS

Hokitika Guardian, 10 March 1925, Page 3

INFANTILE PARALYSIS

r„y TEL EG RAPII —I’KH I’RESS ASSOCIATION

DUNEDIN CLEAR. DUNEDIN. March 19. No notifications of infantile paralysis aro reported since Friday. I \TEST Cl IRIBTCII URG'D NOTIFICATIONS. THREE DEATHS. CHRISTCHURCH, March 10. The total notifications of infantile paralysis cases in Canterbury and Westland since Jan. 24th. till noon to-dav are 177. including 123 positive, with 14 deaths, 54 negative and two undecided. There were three deaths reported tins morning, two in Christchurch and one in Tiinarii.

The Bank <>i' New Zealand lias prepared a complete series of notes from 10s to £IOO. These will bo lut in circulation ns soon ns the supplies oi the present se:ies run out. Ike new ten pound note already is in eirculatjju. The notes are of distinctive design and measure seven by three and a hall inches. Tno pound and ten shilling notes will appear in the course of a few weeks. The from of each note in the new issue bears a portrait of the late Maori “King” Tawhiao in an oval medallion measuring about 1:! medics h\ IP inches, the position of the medallion yawing in notes of the different denominations. The hacks of the notes are all identical in design, winch includes circular medallions at each end of the note depicting a group oi Maoris in one ease, and in the other a landscape with kiwis ill the foreground and a volcano in the same position. Ihe centre of the background of the new issue Units the seal of the Dominion of New Zealand. A novel and notu-ea >le feature of Die 10s note, which is coloured yellow, with pink and green applied lightlv across the centre, is the fact that the value is printed in each of the top corners in the form of £' pound. The colouring of the other notes, in order of value, is as fol-lows-—£l, violet, with brownish tint across centre; £5, blue, with purple and green shading across the centre and brown towards right and left edges; £lO brown with light blue, pink and green shading; £‘2o. green and faint violet and yellow shading and green shading across centre; -AOU ; olive green, with yellow and blue shading across the centre.