NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2063, 4 December 1919, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES.

The prevalence in some dislriets of the skin disease known as Alaori pox has brought from a lady with nursing experience a suggestion for the cure of the distressing complaint. The writer, in treating her husband and child for the same manner of skin eruption, which refused to yield to medical treatment, discovered that an application of zinc ointment and eucalyptus oil removed the scabs. One teaspoonful of the ointment was warmed, and three drops of eucalyptus oil were added, and the mixture stirred well till cold. This was applied (o the sores twice a day, and where possible the air was excluded. In a day or so she found the scabs fell off, and little or no pit was left. This simple remedy, : she said, had been recommended to several friends, and the writer so far had not heard of any sore, scratch or scab that it had failed to cure.

The appearance of children of school age at public performances was condemned in a letter received by the Auckland Education Board on Wednesday last from the Headmasters’ Association. The Association suggested that steps should be taken to prevent children from taking part in night recitals, and that the Education Department should he asked to procure legislation against the participation of children of primary school age in such performances. In a discussion of (he question (reports the Herald) the members of the Board expressed the opinion that while the utilising of the services of talented children at miscellaneous public performances was reprehensible, there should he no undue interference with assistance by pupils in entertainment for purely school purposes. The secretary was authorised to draft a circular to the Department setting forth’ this view. An amusing story is in circulation on the Coast, touching the advice given by a lawyer (says the Poverty Bay Herald). At one of the townships a lot of driftwood was washed on to the beach. Many of the residents. including the lawyer, piled up A the wood, and sought vehicles to

take it away. One man took another’s pile, and the man whose pile had disappeared sought advice from the solicitor regarding the possibilities of a successful action for the recovery of the wood. The solicitor advised that he had no'action, and the man paid his fee. Straight away (he man whose wood stack had been taken got a cart, and appropriated the solicitor’s pile of wood.