NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1198, 20 January 1914, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

The insect familiarly kuovv as the bed bug is, according to Dr. Walling Hevetidge, as dangerous as it is objectionable. In a paper read before the conference on sanitation, which recently sat in New York, he declared that the bug was responsible for the t r aus mission of tuberculosis. It was only recently, said the doctor, that the bug had been given consideration as a carrier of germs, but now a number of authorities were agreed that there was a possibility of its infecting persons with leprosy and spinal meningitis. The bug was able to live for 229 days without food. The doctor therefore warned housewives of the grave consequences of living in the company of the household pest.

Mr Dixon, president o! the new Huully arbitration union, accompanied by about fifteen arbitratknhts, euteied the Coal Miners’ Union office at iiuutly j-esterday, and formally tcok pot session of it. Mr Wood, president of the o‘d union, and a few exstrikers weie in the office at the time, and a collision between the two forces occurred. Some ol the ex-slrikers, who were out-num-bered, escaped through a window : another man fell out 011 to the street, and another was cither pushed or knocked down. The prompt arrival of the police slopped the fracas, and although a large and excited crowd quickly gathered there was no further trouble. Mr Wood refused to leave till given po-s:ssion of h's union’s books and papers, wheu he quietly departed.