THE OPOTIKI NEWS Wednesday, March 15, 1939 LOCAL AND GENERAL
Temperatures, North Island temperatures yesterday were a.s follows: —Auckland 64 degrees, Tauranga 65, Opotiki 66, East Cape 62, Gisborne and Wellington 60, and Napier 63. Frost sit Gisborne. Efcirly , morning temperatures in Opotiki this week have been fairly low, but are well above freezing point. Gisborne has not been so. fortunate and yesterday morning the grass temperature reached 28 degrees, representing a. frost, of 2.3 degrees according to the standards of the meteorological office. The two previous frosts were 3.3 degrees on January 20 and 1.3 degrees on January 5. Railway Revenue. An increase in revenue of £2OB was shown for . the Gisborne-Mo-tuhora railway line for the four weeks ended February 4. compared with the corresponding four weeks in 1938. The revenue totalled £2887, as" against £2679 -in 1938. The expenditure increased from £2114 in 1938 to £2057 for the four weeks at the beginning of this year. The net revenue for the period was £230, compared with £565 lastyear. Maori Infsintj Mortality. Approximately three -Maori babies died to every. European one, according to a statement, made by Itotarian Hi. H. B. Turbott, an officer of the Department of Health, when speaking at the Kotary Conference in Napier. “The Maori mother is ignorant of European mothercraft. and is not reached by the Blanket system,” he said. “She feeds her baby wrongly to reap death fi'om infantile convulsions, gastric and intestinal disorders. She lacks preventive knowledge to safeguard the infant from tuberculosis. She doesn’t know how to nurse measles, whooping cough and suchlike epidemic diseases, and her home care of influenza, broneho-pemimonia and pneumonia is often so faulty as to accelerate deaths from these causes. All this is remediable. Home visits to erery Maori mother are needed to give an infant-welfare service comparable to the Blanket system.” The Spirit of Adventure. t The desire of young children to climb is well known, but seldom does it give the parents the shock it did. recently when a Gisborne mother discovered her three-year-old son 25ft. up in the branches of a tree in the ’garden. After the mother had 1 missed the child for' a short time she started a search of the house and garden, and was horrified to see her son holding on to a comparatively small branch of a tree and a considerable distance from the ground. Speaking to the child to restore his confidence and impress upon him not to move, she rushed off to the telephone and communicated with the child’s father' in town. , It was same distance to his home, .but the father returned in quick time and climbed the tree to bring to earth his adventurous soil. It was with great relief to the parents that the incident ended so well. Lotteries and Bookmakers. State lotteries and the licensing of bookmakers, said Mr. F. \Y. Schramm M.E. for Auckland East, in an interview at Invercargill, were matters .which should be dealt with squarely. About £1.OCX).000 was annually si-lit away from New Zealand in lotteries Abroad, and the country was recompensed only to an extent hy cash prizes received in return. That .£1,000.000 should be conserved for New Zealand. Bookmakers were not recognised by law in New Zealand, 'fluM tUe country taxed them on tlieirXiucdqid for such practice and sent' its..inspectors along to scrutinise the Teaks.Ain the eases of Mate lotter i eh:mhd>-!v<bo»kinakeis there was a good;delerin ; :«f hypocrisy. 1 A-rsolla i!y, Mr. ySdlirniffi] 1 said, lie was not. a regular helping N man. but) the sooner all political^parties summoned up courage to-ijfad&Gtli'■ issues the better it would i..bd> t'br.htbc- country, the people of w-lrjcliijWuMjpd -these things placed em a prpper>’f||oi>ing. Messrs. IlhrryffLiid Beale Ltd.. Opticians. Aucklalld'l atlyise that tlieir representaitiF,f R. Howard, may be consulted-.H. H. NeweU’.s M a-rcli 16th. Appoi ut mehtsVLpMay'ybe booked with Mr. Newell. j) -. mmk
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