ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVI, Issue 43084, 25 April 1907, Page 4

ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The Wakatane Press _ states that all the workmen on Ramgitaiki drainage works are down with swamp fever through drinking swamp water. The disease known as cerehro-spinal meningitis has been declared by.the

Minister for Health to be an infectious disease, Avithin the meaning of th© hew

Zealand Act,. “The best poll-tax Ave can put on Chinamen,” said a speaker at Kilbirnie (Wellington) “is not to support him.” He claimed that the people who cried out most against the yellow man lent him as much support as anyone. If they did not buy the Ghiniaman’s fruit there would soon be no Chinaman

fruiterer. “Some want a free breakfast table; others a free dinner table; others again clamour for a free tea table, whilst there are those who want free snacks in between. They are all freetraders till it touches their own pockets.”— l Hon. MdNab in his land speech at |

Waibi. A, resident of Dannevirk’e states that business in his town was very dull just now. Asked as to the cause, lie replied that the town and district had been greatly overdone. “I have j’ust relinquished my dairy farm at £2O per acre,” he said, “which I am Confident is mulch more than it was worth. T own property is at a discount, and I am willing to close at anytime with an offer of £250 less than, I paid for Some . property in one of the most important business streets.” This gentleman, thought it would 'be three or four , years before the district, would recover ! from the effects of the property ‘boom.’