DOMINION NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 23 July 1927, Page 3

DOMINION NEWS.

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association.) UNKNOWN EM PLOVERS CITED. DUNEDIN. July 22. At the Arbitration Court Justice Frazer read a letter from the Postal Department to tihe Labour Department. Auckland stating in a period of a few days 2270 large registered rolls were handed in by the clerk of awards in connection with the recent award and 757 have been returned as unclaimed. The writer found many of the linns addressed had been out of business for several years. IDs Honour said that regarding country towns it tippenred that no check was kept ‘by Cnion secretaries on employers subject Ur tint awards. Careful inquiry should bo inado through tho district agent to sec if the people cited were still in business. The Post Office and Court were put to much needless trouble.

GOITRE MENACE. CHRISTCHURCH. July 22. In a report presented to the Canterbury Education Board to-day. Dr Elinor Baker-McLaglen, the Education Department’s Health Inspector, stated that on a recent visit to the Christchurch Dills’ High School, she found goitre in 81) per cent of the gilds, and in 70 per cent, of these cases, the goitre was plainly visible, in oni'y a few case, she said, bad any attempt been made at treatment.

The doctor’s report adds: ••The tragedy of this apathy i'ios in the fact that each succeeding generation will get worse. In 20(1 years. Canterbury will lie like Swit.xei land where they have thousands of cretin imbeciles, due to thyroid degeneration, through successive generations.”

The doctor insists that prevention i.s simple by the use of iodised salt, and that this should ho used not only by tin l child from infancy, Imt by the mother before tlie birth of the child. She says that already in Christchurch a number of babies liave been born with goitre. She further says that broadly speaking all New Zeai’and. except Taranaki and the Auckland province north of Mercer, is goitre bearing in varying degrees.

IV AND AN FT AGITATION. WAND ANTI. July 22

An indignation meeting as a protest against the attitude of a section of the City Council in regard to the engineer has been definitely lixed fur Monday night, ft promises to be one of tbe largest ever bold here, and is the prevailing topic in Iho city ai present. Supporters of one party bad been arranging quietly to fill the Opera House early with their own friends, but the other party got wise to the ruse and are acting along similar linos, so that there should be a general rush for scats early in the evening. Most iikci’y it will amount to an overflow meeting and possibly one section o( the crowd will have to be addressed in tbe street.

HERD TESTS. HAMILTON. July 22

A comparison of 11k.* Manawiskt-u herd testing figures with those for Waikato reveals the fact that the local averages in several instances head those of Manawatn. whose claim to a Dominion record will bo well disputed. The latest returns for Waikato showed that a herd of twelve cows averaged 448.G0 lbs of blitter fat in 200 days. Another herd of 20 cows averaged ■110.21) lbs of butter fat for 271 days, and a 71 cows herd averaged 413.99 lbs of butter fat lor 284 days, while five or six other herds are over the ■IOO lh mark.

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George Rees (52) who was lined £2O on each of two charges of having laid totalisator raids with a constable, was present at the Police Court to hear the verdict of Mr W. 1!. McKean. SAL, concerning two other similar charges. “Considering the evidence, T have come to the conclusion that it fully justifies conviction on both charges,” Mr McKean .said. ‘‘Rees w ill he fined £2O on each charge. In ordinary circumstances 1 would have imposed tl" maximum penalty. Security for appeal was fixed at £lO 10s in each ease, plus the amount of the fines. Cornelius MeDevitt (37) as thien charged itli earning on the business of bookmaker and also with having laid totaliator odds. MeDevitt was fined £lO. Charles Philpott (72) pleaded guilty to two charges of laying totalisator odds with a constable. On one charge Philpott was fined £lO. and on the other £5. The charge of carrying on the business of a bookmaker was dismissed, no evidence being offered by the police.

COUNCIL OF EDUCATION. NAPIER. July 22

The Hawke's Bay Education Board this morning decided co support the suggestion that the Council of Education be done away with. Mr .1. A. Kirk, a member of the Council, urged that that body bad done good work.