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Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1904, 19 November 1918, Page 2

Will boys', please’gat her up medicine bullies, clean them, and take them to the chemists. They are wanted urgently. A local resident has received a letter from a soldier in the Feat liars tun Camp, dated the 17th instant, in which it is stated that all the Fusion men in the camp are in good health. ‘‘Many people have the erroneous idea that a recent attack of influenza will protect them from a second attack,” said a medical man to a representative of the Wellington Post. “As a unit ter of fact, one attack rather predisposes that patient to a second, the dangerous period being about a fortnight or three weeks later. Many others try to ‘slick it out,’ and stay on in their offices or wherever they are employed, and poison the building at every breath. A man who does that neither does his duty to himself, his employer, or the community, and apart from the fact that he is a menace to everyone, but he runs a grave risk of bringing on an atlaek of pneumonia. He is rather more than a fool —he is a criminal.” Of 87 members of the British Parliament who hold office under the Crown, 57 draw between them £135,025, an average of nearly £2,100 each, according to an official return made recently. This total does not include the fees drawn by the Attorney-General and the Soli-citor-General in addition to their respective salaries of £0,()()() and £5,000 a year. The Allornoy-Gen-eral is the.most highly-paid on the list, and he is followed by a dozen Ministers, who draw the regulation salary of £5,000. Included in this list is Air G. N. Barnes, formerly secretary of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers, who gets £5,000 as a member of the War Cabinet. There are three M’s.P., who receive only army pay, and 25 members of the House hold unpaid offices. Arrangements have been made by the Cumird Company to lake over the general passenger agency of, the Japanese steamship company, Toyo Kisen Kaisha, whose large and modern passenger steamers trade across the Pacific between San Francisco, Japan and China, calling en route at Honolulu. This is only one direction in which (he Cunard Company is perfecting its preparations for the extension of its business when things revert to the normal. The passenger agency of (he Toko Risen Kaisha points to a verymaterial strengthening of (he Canard Company's American connections, a department of its enterprise which hut for the war would doubtless have shown some remarkable developments. Liverpool to New York, New York to San Francisco, San Francisco |o Honolulu, and (hence to China and Japan suggests great possibilities, seeing I hat British, American, and Japanese interests are thus brought into doso combination.