MISCELLANEOUS.

Otaki Mail, Volume XXVIII, 8 September 1920, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS.

j i Whooping cou.ah is prevalent in the | district, and a correspondent forwards j the following -cure t»» an exchange: -- j In the interests of tin* pour children 5 suffering l’roiii that distressing trouble. • whooping cough. I am asking for spre e to make \\ idely known a simple remedy brought under my notice a few day * ago. Gut up some garlic, fairly small, put in casing of buttercloth or thin 1 muslin and ii.\ on the bottom of the . feet of the sufferer, keeping in place 1 with a white cotton >toc king. It would perhaps need renewing every day. but j in two or three days relief would be j experienced, My informant visited a j shop in Melbourne for a supply of thi i comestible, and the Italian woman { serving queried. “Whooping cough?” | And t'u receiving assent, pointed t*- . lier own children, and intimated that I they never got it. presumably because of their free use of this “fragrant j weed.” The Auckland sugar workers’ strike f continues, as the men have decided ' not to go back to work until every . man has been reinstated. The com* 1 pany. on the other hand, claims the right to exercise its own judgment **s to whom it shall re-employ. The union met on Monday night and decided to stand firm, i I Col. Greeley, the newly-appointed j Chief Forester for the United States.states that Alaska contains about a hundred million cords of pulp-wood, and can produce 1.d00.000 tons of newsprint paper a year, which is virtually equal to the amount the Unite J . States is now compelled to import from Canada. Two large mills will I shortly be established in Alaska for | the production of paper.