INFANTILE PARALYSIS CASES IN KAITAIA.

Northland Age, Volume 6, Issue 34, 14 May 1937, Page 6

INFANTILE PARALYSIS CASES IN KAITAIA.

Two cases of infantile paralysis j have been reported in Kaitaia. All h precautions have been taken by the 3. authorities, including the prevention _ of the congregation of children ; the schools, of course, are closed for the g holidays. The following information is issued n by the authorities and should be j studied carefully by parents : y Cases have been confined to one e family. The disease is liable to arise anye where at any time, therefore there e is no epidemic. b The onset of cold weather is alI ways attended by disappearance of 1 the disease. All precautions against possible 2 spread have been taken. Parents should co-operate with the ’ authorities by keeping children under ‘ 16 years of age at home. ’ Your duty to your children and your neighbour’s children is to abide by this restriction. Owing to the infantile paralysis all j children’s events in conection with the . carnival in Kaitaia on Saturday have • been abandoned.

I FATAL MOTOR ACCIDENT NEAR SAIES Yesterday, Thursday, afternoon, Jack Martin, a married man employed at the K.D.V. Box Co.’s mill at Otangaroa, was killed when a lorry in which he was riding went off the road and fell down a 35 foot bank. Martin was crushed under the lorry which landed in a mangrove swamp with its wheels in the air. The truck, which was driven by Jabez Foster, was passing a car at tiro time of the accident. Henry Ford’s new car is to have the motor in the rear. Many fathers who get their driving- directions from the back seat think it’s enough to have the mater back there. * * * * Russia is producing synthetic rubber so fast that already one half of the country’s rubber needs are supplied by this substitute product. * * * * Morey may not buy happiness, but with it you can be unhappy ir ccmtates. * * * * Signor Mussolini, it is said, writes many letters daily in his own hand. But mostly of course, he merely dictates. * * * * The new evening dresses, says a fashion expert, will be of silky material and quietly coloured. Sheen hut not heard, in fact. * * * * Owing to the increased cost of living, wages throughout Italy are to be raised 10 to 12 percent. * * * * Municipal authorities in Paris plan to construct 50 subway air-raid shelters at a cost of 2,000,060 francs each. * * * * English is now- taught in all German schools, occupying a position no foreign language has ever yet held in the Fatherland. * * * * Moscow has self-service barber shops where the customer can dash in and find hot water, soap, towels, and shaving sets ready for use. Only a moderate sum is charged. * * * * v ! His Little Trouble Iwo friends who had not met fox’ a long time sat in a restaurant talking. “How is old Snaggs, the company promoter, getting on ?” inquired one. “Oh, he’s not been feeling very well lately,” was the reply. “He has to keep to a very strict diet—just a lit- , tie of certain food.” “What’s wrong with him ” queried i the other. “Indigestion? Insomnia?” ; “No. In prison.” * * * * Over H3s Head “He said he would lay the earth at j my feet,” said the sentimental girl. “Yes,” answered Miss Gadabout, i “it sounds good, but it is not < practical. You already have the 1 earth at your feet. What you want < is a three or four-story house over 1 your head !” .