MISCELLANEOUS.

Otaki Mail, Volume XXVIII, 18 February 1920, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS.

Dr. Young, a specialist who has been attending President Wilson regularly, states in an interview: “We diagnosed President Wilson's illness last October as due to a cerebral thrombosis, which had affected Is is left arm and leg, but had mot impaired liis brain-power in the slightest degree. The arm and leg are now functioning more and more normally, ami the whole organism is steadily improving. President Wilson’s mental vigour is prodigious.”

A Christchurch citizen has suggested to the secretary (Mr W. E. Loadley) of the Returned Soldiers’ Association a novel means bv which the returned men could give a reception to the Prince of Wales. The suggestion is: “That" the returned soldiers should meet life Prince on his at Lyt-telton-and lira-.-, him m a carriage over the Port Libs to Christ byi-ch. If the day bo fine an excellent view of the city and plains would bo obtained.” As Chris)church is several miles from Lyttelton, and as lire For' Hills are no easy climb, the ""diggers” have notso far lahe a ten kuniiy the provith the train, or if that <v on T suit, what price the mo!or <-n; . The Prime MuiiM-r, referring to-rhe-suggestion made that a number of private individuals throughout the Dominion a.re hoarding u f 'nusrdotable amount of sugar, slated that he could not say definitely whether anything of the sort w*s going on. bat lie thought it was unlikely. Tito Auckland Sugar Refining'Company, he added, was still turning out 1 -<*o tnu> per week; a departmental officer had been

sent, to the northern city to supervise Hie rationing of districts -it proportion to population: and everything possible was being done to secure a fair distribution of tin: available supplies. He attributed the pre? ailing -Portage of sugar to tin- i ..'[lowing reasons: —That the country had been bare ut sugar at the opening of ’lie iruit season, chiefly owing to the 10.-s of one whole cargo of sugar, which the watersiders at Auckland would not unload, that the fruit season had been a good one, making the demands for sugar for preserving very heavy, and that the population of the country had been increased by the return from the'war of thousands of men, sill users of sugar.