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Shannon News, 30 November 1923, Page 3

The attention of ladies interested m needlework is drawn to the additions to the schedule for the Levin Horticultural Society’s show on Tuesday. These include classles for cushions (most artistic pen painted, oil painted, and worked, not hucklahack), also the classes for collections of fancy work, washable, . four articles, aim collection without restrictions, lour article*..

Research work into the exact causes of cancer as well as into its remedial treatment, has been largely in the nature of groping in the dark. But it now seems to be fairly generally accepted by the medical profession who have kept in touch with the investigations that at last something of real ■value has been discovered. No false hopes are likely to be engendered by the studiously restrained reports of some degree of success with radium. The clue has to be followed up, and the more the field of investigation is widened the more likelihood there will be' of progress towards finality. If Dunedin can be made one of the outposts of this campaign on behalf of humanity, so much the better. Once funds are available there should not be great difficulty in securing, sup-* plies of radium. The position in re T gard to that rare element has entirely changed through the discovery, m 1913 of new sources of uraniuga ore in the Belgian . Congo.— Dunedin Evening Stax.