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Otaki Mail, 24 April 1922, Page 4

Hundreds ol ucies on ilie high lands round Mount liuupehu are at present u sea ol pink—the lieaiher in blouiii. The spread ul Ibis plant is being regarded .with concern in the district, us it is killing the small vegetation with its prolific growth.

Dr. Blaekinore, Medical Director ut ilie North Canterbury ilu-pilal Hoard's tuberculosis institutions, say - no real progress is being made m New Zealand against consumption. In a report to liis Hoard, occurred ilia following passage: "11 New Zealand legislators could be compelled to sn in the tuberculosis dispensary wi.i: me day by da; ’or a lew weeks, and listen, as 1 have io listen, to tiie despairing words of heart-broken fathers, mothers, husbands and wives, and watch their tears liow, as I have to watch them, something del in 1 1 e and active might be done to rid the community of the terrible scourge -d consumption. . . . Much activity has recently been shown in connection with tiie problematical entry of the bubonic plague into New Zealand, but tliis other is allowed to

stalk about unchecked through tiie country, slaying hundreds, and maiming probably five times as many us it kills, year alter year. The apathy, 'both public and official, in connection witli this disease, is tragic, and almost incredible. Conferences have been held, resolutions passed, promises made, ami there tiie effort has ended. 1 Consumption will never he eradicated from New Zealand unless something i in the nature of a defined and active ‘ policy is initialed.”

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