NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3660, 2 July 1927, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

There were 11 applications for the position of junior clerk for the Upper Hutt Borough Council. . The serious effect of the nonpayment of rates on native lands in the King Country was emphasised at a meeting- of the Te Kuiti Chamber of Commerce. The total loss to the Waitomo County to date is stated to be in the vicinity of £20,000. About £IOOO will be spent by the Auckland Acclimatisation Society during the coming year on the purchase of pheasants for liberation. A moving picture machine purchased by public subscription for the Nelson Hospital has given many pleasant hours to the patients. The manager of a local picture theatre operates the machine for two hours one evening each fortnight. Alien the general manager of the White Sar Line explained the other day that some difficulty was occasionally experienced in finding appropriate boat names ending in “ie v he might have known what would happen. It has happened already, for the Liverpool offices of the White Star has received (5000 suggestions. In these days of crossword puzzle enthusiasts there must he hundreds of people ready to supply most elegant and extensive lists of words ending in “ic.” A little variety might be given to the profusion -of possibilities by arranging them in pairs for twin vessels. Thus good labels for a couple of sister ships would be the

Allegoric and the Paregoric, or the Tonic and (now that the Loeano spirit is abroad) the Teutonic. The Academic and the Epidemic, ■ the Aulie and the Hydraulic, the Synbolic and the Carbolic, and the Pneumatic and the Dogmatic are other possibilities. The Emetic would be a name of ill-omen, but it would go rather well with the Cosmetic, and the Boraeic and the Thoracic fall rather gracefully on the ear. And is there not a certain virile force about the Colic and the Bucolic? Other possible “ies” are alcoholic, diuretic, bubonic, frolic, thermastatic, picnic, static and rheumatic.

Chilblains are very prevalent this winter. The excessive variability of the weather is probably the principal reason (says a medical man in the Christchurch Star). Chilblains are practically an early stage of frostbite, and, like it, attack the extremities (toes, fingers and ears) most readily. Local preventive measures include the wearing of loosely fitting warm gloves or socks. Tight ones, by constricting the blood-vessels, make the task of circulation more difficult. Those who, even in comparatively mild winters, are hibitually troubled with “dead” fingers ami toes will readily contract chilblains. They are usually sugevers from an abnormality of blood pressure called Raynard’s disease, and a course of treatment under medical advice, with trinitrin, will often help matters considerably. Almost all victims, too, benefit from taking If) grains of calcium lactate twice or thrice daily. Every c-are should be taken to prevent the early swollen stage from going on to ulceration. Protection with a dressing of lint; smeared with icthyol ointment will usually achieve this object.