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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3701, 8 October 1927, Page 4

The local surgeon who warned the public against quack therapy was no doubt doing a useful thing. But the quacks have scarcely begun in (New 'Zealand (comments a writer in the Christchurch Press). It is to America that we must turn if we wish to know how many other kinds of treatment there are besides the removal of the appendix. The First National University of Naturopathy, in New Jersey, has developed three dozen systems of medicine. Amongst these are: Osteological Adjustment, Kinesiology, Sysmotherapy, Glucokinesis, Zone Therapy, Practical Naprapathy, Physicultopathy, Immutable Naturopathy, Eice’s Morphology, Astrological Diagnosis of Disease, Practical Sphincterology, Psychotherapeutics, Phrenological Physiology, Electro-Neurology, Spectrochrome Therapy, Endocrinology, and Iridiagnosis.

The short life of totara timber to-day was brought to the notice of the Taranaki Education Board, by the architect (Mr. C. 11. Moore). The totara piles under the Oaomii School and residence had had to be replaced, he said, and those under several other buildings had been found to be in the same condition, having been eaten away at the ground line by the grub. The average life of Nortli Island totara in the district at the present time was not more han 12 to 15 years. He had known totara to last 40 years and over in the South Island.