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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 107, 13 August 1910, Page 10

Isn't it cunous that when it is one minute after eight o'clock it is past eight; when it is thirty minutes after it is only half-past eight? Either coW or lukewarm water should "be used for cleaning bread and pastry boards. Hot water softens the wood and causes grease to spread. It is important to distinguish sunstroke and heat exhaustion; the former requires • imediate efforts to reduce the temperature, the latter demands gentle stimulation. In epilepsy, or fainting-fits, do nothing excppt to prevent injury to the head or tongue. In all cases of unconsciousness, except apoplexy, the head should be lowered and clothing released. In apoplexy the head should foe raised. "W. 8." writes to the London Times as follows:—"Fifty-seven years ago two young naval surveying officers (we both survive) landed at Poverty Bay and made the first ascent, for trigonometrical purposes, of Young Nick's Head, Cook's first landfall of New Zealand over eighty years before. Near to the very spot where Cook met with such inhospitable jjeatment —he gave the name of Poverty Bay in consequence—and where, too, we landed in 1853, now stands one of the rising cities of New Zealand—Gisborne—and there has been appropriately erected a monument to the great navigator. . . May I, as one of the two youngsters above referred to, fossilised survivors of a bygone age—the master's assistant rank we held kaving been allowed to become extinct—suggest that the only place for a Cook memorial is in the of St. Paul's Cathedral, and as near as may be to that erected to Mr. Seddoi? Tto hoist the figure of fflie grand old seaman on a pedestal in the streets of London wotld be like perching a fish on a cabbage tree."