THE WEATHER.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2638, 27 September 1923, Page 2

THE WEATHER.

The Government Meteorologist wires as follows at noon to-day: — The indications are for variable and strong breezes, but northerly winds moderate to strong prevailing and freshening. The weather will probably become warmer, with increasing haze and cloudiness for change to follow. The barometer has a falling tendency. Seas moderate, tides good.

A reminder is given of the presentation of trdphies to the successful football teams, in the Town Hall to-night. The presentation is to be made”by members of the Horowhenua Ruffby Union and the evening is to be finished up with a dance. “We have known for ages,” re- vVniarked Dr. R. Stout, in an address - at the Red Cross Chambers, Dixon St., Wellington, “that mosquitoes have inflicted' greater destruction than all the armies of the world. It was thought that malaria was paused by the air arising from swampy ground, but we now know that it is due to the mosquitoes which are blown from the swamps to the houses. In the same way we know that plague is caused by the fleas which the rats carry along. The power of transmitting disease however, is not confined to blood-sucking insects. Evidence has been accumulated to show that the housefly, our most common and wide-spread insect, is a prominent factor in the carriage of disease. It lives with us in our homes, feeds off our tables, and carries micro-organism of a dangerous nature. Children have been taught that it was wrong to kill a ' lly,”when they should have been instructed to kill all flies, which do not serve any useful purpose except as a danger signal of some insanitary condition of the house or grounds.