GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 16, 19 June 1913, Page 5

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

A LAND BALLOT. Per Press Association. MastertoTi, Last Night. Seven sections in the Manga one and Kopuaranga survey districts, about 20 miles to the north of Masterton, which were recently held as grazing runs, were ballotted for to-day. There were 57 qualified applicants. Most of those successful at the ballot were residents of the district. DUNEDIN MUNICIPAL IMPROVEMENTS. Dunedin, List Night. A poll was taken to-day on a proposal by the City Council to raise a loan of £175,000 for street improvements and other necessary works. The voting was as follows: For the loan 1233, against 1070. AI'TKCTINC PUBLIC HEALTH. Timaru, June 17. The Hospital Board to-day received a parcel of posters from the Health Department regarding consumption and its prevention, and decided to distribute them among the schools, country post offices, railway stations and hotels; also, on the advice of the local branch of the British Medical Association to obtain a supply of tuberculin to be distributed among tl;e medical men for the use of patients who cannot afford to pay for treatment. The Koard decided to prosecute, as a means of educating the public, a parent who sent a child by train (to see the luilleship), when the Health Inspector l!:- 1 given ollicial notice that the child was under observation as a suspected case of scarlet fever and should not leave home.