WELLINGTON TOPICS
JNFLUENZA. 2fo NEED FOR ALARM. (Special Correspondent.) Wellington, Nov. 2ff f The increase in the number of ohm' - of influenza in the Wellington district ; during the last week or two, has created much uneasiness in gome quarters, timid people fearing a. recurrence of the flpi- '" domic of twelve months ago, but tie District Health Officer states most em- : pbatically there is no need lor alarm. .< "Out of the sixty-two cases of influent* reported," he says, "only six are fMUmonic, and there is nothing to indicate the presence of an epidemic in any place. The type of disease that we are getting . at present is, generally speaking, very mild, and only a small proportion of the '.! cases are pneumonic in nature. Doling ■' the whole of the winter month* there,, - have been very few cases of pneumonia, * and, though there hag been an occasional •?! death there has been no increase in. Hhjt."*) fatalities." The health authorities h*V*:ij the position well in hand and with pjjjp« ; i? per precautions on the part of toe ptuwki and prompt notification, they an COB* ; fident of keeping the disease in check. ' - ROWDY ELECTORS. The members of the Labor Party that . think elections Are to be won by pnt* 4 venting their opponents speaking- frttta 'a the platform, are continuing their Op- & erations with unabated vigori Just new H they are directing their well organised "*j forces chiefly againßt Mr. Firanl, who i has had the temerity to come is from M Feilding to oppose Mr. Peter Fraser, Official Labor candidate for Central. But they have mistaken their $ man. There is many a politician that i would have been driven out of the field 3 by the outburst of noise and disorder J and personal abuse that greeted the Mby \i eral candidate on hia first appearance '$ in the constituency. But Mr. Pirani la a not made that way. He seems posi* 3 tively to rejoice in his encounters wfttf.-j the crowds that follow him from place -\ to place, and though he never loses hia \ temper he hits back smartly and in- i cisively. Even his opponents are be- >» ginning to realise that by his pluck and a persistence he has put himself well into-3 the running for the seat. ' a THE WELFARE LEAGUE. '1 It has been commonly supposed that .1 the Welfare League was dead, but from ,| an open letter "to the returned soldiered their relations and friends," it publishes Jf in the papers this morning it appears ft'ti has been onl v sleeping. It was awak- g ened to tell the public what the official '1 Labor Party was doing during the grave 1 crisis from which the Dominion, the Era- * pire and the world have just emerged.' S "Where was the Labor Party," it asks ■" the returned soldiers, "when you were-' > at the front?" "Spending most of itl ? time," it replies for itself, "shielding the «.' shirkers." "When the Red Cross societies and kindred bodies were helping } the sick and wounded soldiers and car-'', ing for their dependents," it inquire* '3 of the communitv at large, "where wastj the Labor Party!" "With very few ex« % ceptions," it answers again, "its menK : : bers were mainlr conspicuous bv their J absence." In all this, of course, tha-i League is on sound ground, and both the * old parties will be glad to see it remain.'-; \m awake to continue its activities tali ~y the tame - " 7.;';
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