NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3907, 14 February 1929, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

The next Wanganui wool sale will be held on the 27th inst. The scarlet fever epidemic does not seem to be abating very much in Canterbury.

An average of 10,000 banknotes are cancelled every week by the Auckland branch of the Bank of New Zealand alone. That this season is the worst for many years so far as anglers are concerned is the opinion of most sportsmen in Ashburton. Eggs marketed bv the Hawera and district egg circle last year totalled 13,501 dozen, yielding an everage price of 1/7f per dozen. The Daylight Limited which ceased running on Saturday, will be put into commission again on March 26 for the Easter holidays. The New Plymouth Daily News states that about 50 families .are ,said to be living in rooms or boarding at hotels in Hawera on account of the acute housing shortage. Within the last three weeks over 40,000 lambs have been sent to one works alone in Wanganui. These were taken from between Hawera and Greatford.

The number of postal notes paid in the Hamilton postal district during quarter ended December 31 was 37.058 for £11,399 19s. These figures were exceeded only in the four cities.

It is estimated that there will be a decrease of considerably oyer one million bushels in the wheat yield for the season 1928-29, as compared with the actual yield for last season.

■Native wood pigeons may be seen in numbers along the banka of the Waikopikopiko river at the present time and can he viewed at close quarters (reports the Southland Times). A Public W)orks camp is now established at Okereru, pear Waikaremoana, to accommodate the survey jxarty engaged in laying off the route for the transmission line from Tuai to Arapuni. A few weeks ago a farmer at Golden Bay, Nelson, found a strange insect on one of his' cattle ■which he sent to the iCawthron Institute for identification. Dr. Miller recognised the insect as a cattle tick and an inspector was sent to the district to investigate. He subsequently stated the infected herd had been thoroughly examined and only three ticks had. been found. Other herds throughout the distinct ■had been examined, but no further trace of the parasite had been found. This is the first occasion on which cattle ticks have been found in the ,South Island. The method of using the telephone directory as an advertising medium 'was severely criticised by a leading business man to a Southland News representative. “It is ridiculous,” he said, “the way each page is disfigured with .unsightly printing along each side of numbers making it extremely difficult to see the name and number one is desirous of finding. To my mind the directory is for the use of telephone subscribers in finding numbers they require and probably every business man in Invercargill will agree with me, not a suitable place for any shopkeeper to advertise his wares.”

The Times Munich correspondent states that an, important announcement in connection with the radiological treatment of gynaecological cancer is contained in the report presented to the League of Nations cancer committee by Professors Diederlain and Voltz, who are members of the (Committee and chiefs of the Munich Gynaecological Hospital. They state they have treated 4000' cases of cancer in 15 years by a combination of radium rays and X-rays. They declare surgical operations are now obsolete. From 14 to 20 per cent, of 'the cases are cured; that is, they are remaining free from disease for five years. These had previously been declared hopeless.

A rare thrill was provided passengers by the Manama on January 19, when she was a day out from Auckland, in the Tasman 'Sea. The “Sydney Sun” says: “A severe bump was felt and' the vessel shook. Visions of derelicts Avere conjured up, and became even-more intense when for a few seconds the proseemed to jar. There was a general rush to the after-deck to see what object Avas struck. It was a whale. For a wide area the sea was coloured with blood, and pieces of flesh floated up at intervals. The Marama was fitted recently with new propellers, the blades of which are still very sharp, The whale is believed to have struck the ship head on, to have become dazed and drifted to the stern, where the propellers literally cut it to pieces.” ,