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Shannon News, 21 April 1922, Page 3

The Feildnig Slar says: When we read of a Feilding firm paying £SO per acre for the timber rights alone of a 200-acre patch of bush along this coast—land which a few years ago could have been bought outright for half that amount of money—we fail to see how the prices of homes can be expected to come down. If the Government charges such high cuttingout fees, how can the high cost cf building become anything but higher?

A copy of the will of Robert Jarvis or Johnston, whose estate was to be divided between the hospital in which he might die, and another institution, was received by the Waikato Hospital Board on Thursday. As the testator died in the Waikato Hospital, the Board’s funds are likely, the secretary stated, to benefit to the extent of several hundred pounds.

Dr. Blackmore, Medical Director of the North Canterbury Hospital Board’s tuberculosis institutions, says no real progress is being made m New Zealand consumption. In a report to his Board, occurred the Tollowing passage: “If New Zealand legislators could be compelled to sih in*'the tuberculosis dispensary with me day by day for a few weeks, and listen, as I have to listen, to the despairing \yords of heart-broken lathers, mothers, husbands and wives, and watch their tears flow, as I have to watch them, something definite and active might be done to rid the community of the terrible scourge of consumption. . . . Much activity has recently been shown in connection with the problematical entry of *he bubonic plague into New Zealand, but this other plague is’allowed to stalk about unchecked through the country, slaying hundreds, and maiming probably five times as many as it kills, year after year. The apathy, both public and official, in # connection with this disease, is tragic, and almost incredible. Conferences have been held, resolutions passed, promises made, and there the effort has ended. Consumption will never be eradicated from New Zealand unless something in the nature of a defined and active policy is initiated.”

Mr W. H. West’s pullet, which had laid 330 eggs in the 51 weeks of the New Zealand Utility Poultry Club’s competition at Papanui, near Christchurch, was kept penned for another week, during which she laid a further six eggs, thus establishing a world's record for a White Leghorn pullet of 336 eggs in 365 days, or rather, in her case, 355 days, asvShe did not commence to lay until 10 days after the commencement of the' competition.