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Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 267, 4 December 1939, Page 2

Gisborne’s Iren Lung. Advice to the effect that the iron lung” respirator lor hospital use donated by Lord Nuffield to the Cook Hospital Board, which was one of a number of hospitals in. New .Zealand t ()l benefit in this way from the generosity of the well-known philanthropist, had been shipped from England was received at the meeting of the Cook Hospital Board last week.. The notice from the Director General of Health, Dr. H. M. Watt, indicated that the ocean carriage of the gilt was without cost to the hoard, wliil'h would only have to pay transit charges in Eng-, laud to the ship’s sidle*, and internal freights in New Zealand.

Hoist by His Own Petard. Tin* fact that it .is illegal dow not prevent morbid-minded people troin occasionally dynamiting hawks. Ihe iecent experience of a "Waikato should serve as a warning; to anybody with similar ideas. He liberated a hawk with a stick of dynamite tied firmly to one of its logs. 'the added weight worried the bird, whieli flew straight to the nearest resting place. This happened to be the root of the farmer’s lionise. After it had been there a lew seconds the plug exploded, lifting the roof half oIH the house and scattering debris lor yards around. Fortunately nobody was injured, as might have been the ease, but the farmer was punished to the extent ol nearly £IOO for repairs. / Another Rotorua. The resemblance that the southern part of Peeland bear to the thermal regions of .Now Zealand was commented upon by Air. W. H. Price during a talk at the Wellington. Travel Club. He had expected to see the country covered with ice. hut in the south it vas ol a volcanic nature and bare of any vegetation. There were geysers which were made to play with soap in the same wav’ a.s at Rotorua. On the other side of the island were the Straits of Denmark, through whieli the German liner Bremen >vas reported to have gene to escape the British uaiships. Very few of the pe.ople could afford to have baths in their homes, but there were large bathing pools which all were supposed, to visit daily, having first been thoroughly cleansed with soap and hoit water from nearby springs. There was a distinct atmosphere of .oil about the island because of the fish-eating habits of tlio people and their consumption of codliver oil to maintain the heat- of thcii bodies. The people were very musical and cultured, and were proud of their Scandinavian descent. Scani ha via n descent.