NEWS AND NOTES.
“A trip round my diocese involves a steamer journey of 12,000 miles,” said the Bishop of Polynesia in the course of his address at Palmerston North last week. Milking methods are developing on new lines as the result of the great increase of milk yield in modern dairy cows (says an English paper). First it became necessary to milk the heavy vielders three times instead of twice a day. Now some cows are being milked on both sides at once, two milkers operating simultaneously, an experiment- which is being tried on Mr Findlay’s famous herd of Friesians at Glasslaw, Stonehaven. The herd includes the first 300-gnllons-a-.vear cow in Scotland, Findlay Clara 11. So far the double milking has resulted in one cow increasing her yield by half a gallon in three days without an increase of food. In his report to the Dunedin Education Bond this week, the attendance officer stated that there was a shortage in most of the infant departments. He mentioned a striking feature, states “The Post’s” correspondent, namely, that over 60 children had left the Otago district since the end of the last December quarter, the majority having gone to the North Island. The chairman mentioned that the officer gave the number going out, hut said nothing about those coming in. A member stated that- the latest returns showed that the drift of the population was now southward. The chairman added that the infant departments were simply making a recovery after the war period. At the recent convention of the American College of Surgeons, at Chicago, Dr. Fred. TI. Albec, of New York, an authority on reconstructional surgery, in telling about machine-driven surgical instruments, said: “One of the host points about automatic machine driven surgical tools is that they reduce the shock of operation, because of the speed. This may be exemplified by the fact that a man when shot with a steel-jacketed swiftly-mov-ing bullet, often does not realise he is shot until the blood begins to How. But when a man is shot with a slowly-moving, soft-nosed Imllet, he is knocked down, so violent is the shock. The same thing applies in operations when mallet and chisel are used. There the shock is vastly greater than when the cutting instruments work swiftly and surely, cutting the hones to a true size. Holes are cut to the right size ami dowels of living hone are made to lit exactly.”
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2703, 4 March 1924, Page 4
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406NEWS AND NOTES. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2703, 4 March 1924, Page 4
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