The Manawatu Herald. Tuesday, June 20, 1911. NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 1007, 20 June 1911, Page 2

The Manawatu Herald. Tuesday, June 20, 1911. NOTES AND COMMENTS.

In the June number of the London Magazine a very interesting article is contributed by Hugh H. Riddle, M. 8., on ‘‘The Conquering of Cancer.” The writer deals with the wonderful experiments which are being carried on under the auspices of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, in the buildings of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, London. He graphically describes the wonderful experiments made on mice. He concludes by stating that the world at large is greatly beholden to this modest little group of workers who, with no advertising and no applause, are quietly pursuing their labours. To know that cancer is not on the increase, that the risk of inheriting it is so slight as practically to be negligible, that the disease cannot be spread from one person to another as can smallpox or typhoid, that cancer houses do not exist, and that early and radical removal by operation, instead of hurrying the development of the deadly secondary growths, will invariably stave off the disease temporarily at least, and is without exception the only treatment which can be recommended in our present state of knowledge of the disease —all these are facts the full understanding of which will be of countless benefit to mankind. That they are now advanced from theories to established facts is largely the result of the work which has been carried out in the laboratories of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund in the past eight years. Of the inoculation experiments, whether

for preventing the successful implautiug of growths or for retarding the development of growths previously implanted, the writer says that the vista of possibilities opened up is too illuminating for sober discussion.

This hard frosts at present being experienced throughout Central Otago have practically brought about a suspension of rabbit trapping (writes the Otago Daily Times). The season has been open for about three months, and owiug to the exceptionally fine weather during that period probably more rabbits have come to hand than during any other season in the history of the industry. In fact, it is computed that at the height of the season from 70,000 to 80,000 rabbits per week were coming into Dunedin. However, the hot weather experienced some weeks back seriously affected the condition of the rabbits, and the percentage of rejects was at times exceedingly heavy. Latest reports from New South Wales state that the country is in such a prosperous condition that trappers are very independent, and that nothing like the same quantities will be exported Irom Australia this year as was the case last year. Advices from London are to the effect that the market there is still very weak, and that there were carried over irom last season 60,000 or 70,000 crates of rabbits, which had been stored in London freezing chambers, and the iact of these being placed on the market at the opening of the season affected it considerably. The prices of skins on the local market at the present time is about 13d per lb., best skins realising up to 1 yd, but at the rate of fivepence per pair on the ground it pays the trapper better to send the carcases forward lor freezing than to trap for the skins only.