LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 39, 17 February 1915, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Riflemen will’ be able to indulge, in a shoot at the butts to-morrow afternoon.

A further cablegram from Suva con. cerning the hurricane states that the bulk store, copra shed, and welling owned by Tyndall and Ross, Niuafou, were wrecked.

Weather Forecast.—Westerly strong winds to gale. The weather will probably prove squally and changeable, with rain probable. The barometer has a falling tendency, but is unsteady.—Bates, Wellington. .

The funeral of the late Mr J. A. Thomas, which left the Hospital at 2 o’clock this afternoon for the Ivopuatama Cemetery, was very largely attended. As the procession passed along-Broadway, it comprised no less than twenty-eight traps, four motors, besides cyclists and riders on horseback.

The application to the County Council re special loan for the Pembroke Road metalling scheme was agreed to at the meeting this morning, all the necessary steps for the raising of the loan having been complied with. The Council decided to call for an alternate tender of £250 for the work conditional on the second instalment of £250 being forthcoming from the local bodies interested.

Some remarkable cases, involving curious physiological facts, at intervals beset the authorities administering the Australian Maternity Bonus Act. One of these, which necessitated advice being sought from a medical specialist, presented itself recently. According to the Melbourne Age, a claim was re- ! ceived from a woman for the bonus in I respect of a child born. Being properly attested, it was paid. Within a few weeks the woman submitted a claim for another child born to her one month after. There was for this claim complete documentary justification. But such an occurrence being thought a physiological impossibility, inquiries were set on foot. The officers deputed to make them were assured by the medical man who attended the mother that two babies had been born, and a month had elapsed between the first and second births. A specialist was consulted as to the possibility of such an event, and he stated that he was aware of such cases, but they were few and far between. He explained that the infants were undoubtedly twins. The departmenet accepted this ruling and paid only one bonus: