NEWS AND NOTES.

Hokitika Guardian, 27 August 1925, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

The measures taken hy the Health Department to combat the outbreak oi typhoid fever among the Maoris of the Opotiki district have apparently boon completely successful, as no fresh cases have been reported lor practically a fortnight (states an exchange). The Department, is. however, continuing with the inoculation of the Maoris as this forms part of its ordinary routine for overcoming the disease among the Natives. . During the course of an address on I tramway matters to members of the | Workers’ Educational Association at | Christchurch. Mr Frank Thompson , caused aniuseinent amongst his audience hy staling that the lost luggage department had a particularly busy I time of it last year, as no lower than Ok!-) articles of various description were left in the trams during the twelve months. Amongst the articles were 223 brief hags, .17 brooches, -UR pairs of gloves, 221? single gloves, •!!) musical instruments, 887 purses, and peggy-hags, 54-1 umbrellas, cud 32 push-carts. Hearty laughter ensued when Mr Thompson mentioned th: number of push-carts. " How a woman with a baby can go away and leave her push-cart behind is beyond my comprehension,” he declared. — “Lyttelton Times.” “While in the United States I was particularly impressed with the splendid eo-operatiim between public-spirit-ed workers and the medical profession in the interests of public health.” said Mr Kenneth Macketiie, who returned to Auckland by the Aoraiigi (reports t’e "Herald”). In practically every (i;y, lie add 'd, there v, ere societies made up ol doctors, and lay people, which set themselves out to give the public advice about various diseases and a 111 ic Go ns. There were • 0.-i v.ics which specialised in cancer, tuberculosis, and heart disease. Lectures were iirrau yd and pamphlets wHch had tiie object of guiding the public were freely distributed. The societies also fostered l’ress campaigns and were doing a great work. The various Rotary ( labs ami Kiwanis. similar organisations to Rotary, made a special feature of the care of the cripples in all cities throughout the United States. Special meetings oi the Rotary International Convention were devoted to the question of the cripple. At a special meeting of the Y\ alternate County Council, it was reported that section TO ol the Counties Amendment, Act. now before Parliament, proposed to repeal section 131. subsection 3. of the .Municipal Corporations Act. which provides that separate accounts , of the emiutv funds shall he kept ot ’ each riding of the county, showing the - amount apportioned to it and the amount actually expended on the 1 works in tlie riding in each year, and - that all such accounts should he umliI ted hy the Government Audit Office. It was reiiortoil to the council (states . the “Auckland Star ”). that this anv - end incut had been sought by the Counties Association to get over the iliffi--1 cully which now existed, making the councillors sullied to a surcharge when 1 tliev cxi ceded the expenditure allowed in anv particular riding. The Waiteniata Countv Council reviewed the position with alarm, and decided to for- - ward a |>rolc-l to Wellington aecordr iimlv through its representatives, and v also to suggest that as an alternative e the statute be amended to provide that win-re a riding exceeds its financial i limit of expenditure, it should not be a subject to the penalties imposed by i the Finance Act.