NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2846, 14 February 1925, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES.

Ait Oamnru resident has discovered that an effective remedy for blight on cabbages, roses, etc., is to mix a packet of Epsom sails with two gallons of water, after dissolving i( in warm water, and use it as a spray (states the North Otago Times). The High I; Rev. Alfred Walter Averill, Bishop of Auckland, has, by the vote of the Anglican General Synod (sifting in Dunedin) been appointed Archbishop of New Zealand in succession to Archbishop Julius, whose resignation will take effect on April 20. The motions recently passed by At the Wanganui Supreme Court yesterday, Matthew Wlson was found guilty of arson, and abetting in a similar crime at Rangataua, and was remanded for sentence. Leo Raymond Greener was ordered to come up for sentence for indecent assault on a male. The Judge said Iho prisoner was more sinned agninsf than sinning. Arthur Manning was ordered to. come up for sen!mice for embezzlement.

the Council of the Wellington Law Society in regard to appointments I<> (he Supreme Court bench and to salaries and pensions paid to .1 ml-, ges have been approved by tile Council of the Canterbury Law Society. The following motion was also passed: “That in the opinion of the .Council of the Canterbury Law Society, the minimum salary of a Judge'should be £3,000 per annum; also (hill some provision should be made for a pension to the widow of a Judge.”

“Practically every adult lias bad infantile paralysis.” declared an Auckland medical authority If’ a. Star representative. The doctor explained the apparent extraordinary statement by staling that in many instances people develop the initial disorders of the disease without becoming so bad that paralysis develops. Tlu* mild attack —which consists of a number of quite common ailments (irritability is one!) —provides immunity from a recurrence of the malady. Of course, the sufferers of the mild form of infantile paralvsis—and their name is legion—are undetected and remain at lurge ;is germ carriers. Acute cases urc among the children —90 per cent of them under 10 years of age, elepi y indicating according to medical i pinions, that the milder forms of the disease have made adults safe jVom further attacks.