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Hokitika Guardian, 2 April 1925, Page 2

It is good to note that the epidemic !of infantile paralysis is subsiding. The virtilen.e of the disease appears to have run its course, and the authorities are to confer at Wellington on Friday with legat'd to letting up the restrictions. These were enforced in good time, and generally very well observed. Xu doubt the precautions minimised the spread very considerably. Although there were reports of the complaint hereabouts, the town and district has escaped very well, for which all will he thankful. It now seems probable that the schools will reopen immediately after Easter. The extended term of holidays has palled even on the scholars, the majority of whom will he glad to get hack to school. Classes will he thrown hack considerably, tail, the position could hardly he otherwise. It were best to, avoid a decimation c. the rising generation by preventing the congregating of children, and ti. liability to the spread of the disease. If the authorities have erred on this occasion, it is on the side of extra caution, and it were better to he that way than to fail in the opposite direction. .Many cases were notified which turned out to lie negative. This had rather an alarming eifeet on the public mind, and it would have been better not to record the cases till the actual position were determined. A gcac: deal of needless alarm was caused on that account, hut on the other hand it had the effect of causing extra caution to he observed, aiul in the ci perhaps the best preventative puiposo was served. In any case it is good re know the epidemic is subsiding and passing away.

It is not generally known that the British Empire is hearing about onethird of the cost of the administration of the League of Nations. The Budget for the seventh financial period of the League, which has now been received by the Government of New Zaland, shows that the British Empire is allotted £250.000 of the estimated allocation of £I.O<X>.CKX) for the ex-

penses of the League for the year 1925. The expenditure Ls allotted, according to units of which the British Empire holds 244. of the total of 935. The allocation of the British Empire

ami of the principal other members o the League is as follows: — Country. Units. Allocation £ Great Britain ... 88 100,000 India ... GO 77,000 Canada ... 35 10,000 Australia ... 26 30,000 South Africa ... 15 10.000 Irish Free State ... 11) 12,000 Feu' Zealand ... 10 12,000 British Empire ... 2-11 £287,000 France ... 78 01,000 Italy ... ... ... Cl 71.000 Japan ... 61 71,000 China ... 50 GO. 000 Spain ... 10 17.000 Argentine ... 35 11,000 Brazil ... 33 38,000 Czecho-Slovakia ... 33 38,000 Roumania ... 27 32.000 Serbs ... 25 29.000