AROWHENUA TOWN BOARD.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1565, 5 October 1886, Page 3

AROWHENUA TOWN BOARD.

A meeting of the Arowhenua Town Board took place on Saturday evening last. Present—Messrs Lee (Chairman), Edgeler, Story, Proudlock and Austin. MINUTES. The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. COBRESPONDENCE. A letter was read from Mr G. Dyson, Clerk, apologising for his absence on account of ill apology was accepted. Mr Dyson also wrote on behalf of Mr J. Talbot, Chairman of the Road Board, to the effect that he would be happy to meet the Chairman or other members of the Board on Monday evening at seven o'clock, when they could talk over matters concerning the two Boards.—The Board, after a short discussion, decided to avail themselves of Mr Talbot's offer, and the Chairman and Mr Edgeler were appointed to meet him. A letter was read from the Commissioner of Crown Lands,. Christchurch, dated the 24th Sept., acknowledging receipt of letters from the Board, and enclosing statement of land Bold for cash in Arowhenua since 1865. The letter pointed out that local bodies were only entitled to one-third of the amount realised by the sale of "deferred payment " land within their boundaries. The amout received for deferred payment lands altered from day to day, but a correct account was kept, and the local body was credited with the amount it was entitled to. £6 10s 2d was the only amount that had been paid out of Bpecial vote to the Temuka Road Board as one of the Canterbury local bodies. There had been no payment made to the same Board on account of deferred payment land situated in the village settlement of Arowhenua. The letter concluded : "Although a voucher for £394 17a Id in favor of the Town Board (being one-third of the proceeds of the land sold in the Arowhenua Village Settlement to 31st July last) has been prepared for transmission to Wellington, in terms of Bection 39 of the Special Powers and Contract* A.et 1886', which sum represents the

tola I amount due under clause 127 of the Land Ai t 1885 up to the time of the constitution of your Town Board, the Receiver of Land Revenue is advised from the Treasury at Wellington that there ia no authority in law for paying over to the Town Boards or Boroughs the thirds of receipts for the sale ot deferred payment or perpetual lease land within thiir respective boundaries." A discussion took place on this letter, when the Chairman pointed ont; that Clause 3Sb of the Special Powers and Contracts Act clearly authorised the payment of the sum accruing from the sale of deferred payment sections in Arowhenua to the Town Board.—lt was decided to further consider the letter at the next meeting. CASH LAND SALES. The .list appended showed that the amount realised for the sections sold for cash in the Arowhemw Town District was £5229 5s 6d. MAP. A letter wbb read from Mr J. H. Baker, Chief Surveyor, stating that the price of a large map of the district, showing sections sold, municipal, educational and Government reserves, to date, would be £lO ; of a smaller one, £5 s«i; or of a colored lithograph, £2,—lt was decided to hold over consideration of the question till the Clerk was prestut. DEPUTATION. Proposed by Mr Proudlock, seconded by Mr Austin, and carried—" That tbe Chairman and Mr Edgeler be appointed a deputation to interview the Road Board 1 on Tuesday." , The Board then resolved itself into a Committee on the question of the reservest after which the meeting adjourned till nex, Thursday evening. MILK AND SCARLET FEVER. A remarkable discovery—or, at all events, a most valuable and suggestive hint pointing towards a new discovery—is chronicled by the medical officer of the local Government Board in a recently issued report. If the investigators are upon the right track, we have a totally new and unexpected source indicated for one of the most deadly of juvenile maladies—the scarlet fever. This discovery is one, too, which furnishes some reason for the belief that it will lead to the extinction, or, at least, the great restriction of the disease. It has long besn known that scarlet fever often follows the milk supply. Hut there was nothing in this to suggest that the milk itself was in any direct way chargeable with the production of the fever. If, anyone in the most remote degree concerned in attending the cows or distributing the milk had suffered from it, tbe milk would, of course, form a most efficient vehicle for diffusing the disease. This apparently explained the facts sufficiently. It appears, however, that the milk is more directly concerned than was supposed. Tbe facts upon which this conclusion is based are these :—Numerous cases of scarlet fever in London were last December traced to a common source of milk supply. The dairy proved to have been admirably managed, and it was shown n « individuals concerned in it hat 1 been directly or indirectly connected with any caso of scarlet fever. This aroused a suspicion that the cause was intimately connected with the milk itself. A series of investigations were carried on, the result of whish was to show that certain cows hsd been suffering from on eruptive disease of th Q udder. Researches made by Dr. Klein show that tlis disease was easily transmitted from co* to cow, Bnd that when calves were inoculated with it they suffered from the same disease. But when the matter obtained from the sore udders was cultivated in decoctions, animals inoculated with it suffered from a much altered and aggravated disease, not distinguishable, it, fact, from scf-rlft fe\er. [t need hardly be said that the matter will not rest where it is. Further experiments will be carried on, and these who are prosecuting them believe that they have got to the fons d origo of this devastating diseaso, and that the discovery of the cause will be nearly tmtumount to a discovery of the remedy.—Scotsman.