CORRESPONDENCE

Te Puke Times, Volume II, Issue II, 2 December 1913, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE

—-—o — (To the Editor.)

Sir, -By gum, Mister Editor, this ere Te.Puke is a rum plaace. What wi folks v that can't mind tlieir own - bisness, an t'other, folks that mind somebody else's -but there, aw doan't think at onybody taks much noatice, if aw want to buy a blanket wots com.frae a ospital where there's been fever, What bisness es it to do wi onybody else, an then aboot this ere Maori kid, aw _ sud like to know if Dan Lees. - Mister Lees, aw begs his pardon, bothers much aboot it*.or does he hev an idee that t' fever may be'l travel a bit further on'an catch im, an t'poor owld doctor, has been sortergettin inter hot watter what wi blankets an kids. What I Knows aboot im is all tiv is credit an besides why, now why, siid he his phisic onybody for nowt. A'll bet it cost im.or is faither a bonny: penny to larn is bisness, an if he ain't worth paying its a poor look out, an I doan't think t' Maori chap if he tried, mighty ard an scratted round a bit would be hard put to it if- he happens to want a. pund, or may be Dan, he seems a soft arted sort o chap mite a lent im it which aw thinks would a paid im better than all this ere row he's a kicking up- ; . YORKSHIRE LAD. Sir,-In. reply to Mr <D. A. Lees's letter of the 28th ,inst M _ I think it is only fair to the public,, in order to appease their apprehensions of an outbreak of typhoid fevei> to state, the following facts:-- < On the 26th ult,,. I- was re-, quested by the. Public Health Department to visit and officially report upon the case in question, and given a freehand to attend and treat the child.. In spite of Mr Lees's statement (which /I presume is correct) that a certain medical practitioner from Tauranga diagnosed pneumonia and typhoid fever, I diagnosed lobar pneumonia with enteritis of a non-infective nature. . I have since' daily visited the native lad and find there <is not a trace of typhoid fever.' and my. report,to the Health Department has, been based upon personal and professional knowledge, \ •; v '- •. Those Who know me intimately in the district acknowledge; that I am a very obliging personality (excuse the .egotism) }and should Mr-Lees return to the attach through your columns, I, shall be Plleased to oblige him by returning his "fire." as I have an abundance of powder and shot in my arsenal. -Yours truly,

D. HASTINGS YOUNG. fi ; • M.8., M.S,i Ed.

It was decided on the motion of Mr Grant, seconded by Mr Lally, that the Marine Department be iwritfcen to on the subject of removal of dead animals from the foreshore, and asked what steps it intends taking as the. foreshore is still under its •.ontrol. \

A Wairoa, Staging Messrs Gamman's Limited, forward a plan of a piece of land they have leased frorn Mr li. P. Clarke on the Wair'oa River,' on whish they wish tq build a small staging to facilitate the unloading of their timber. The firm stated they trusted that the Board could see its way t<? recommend to tlie Marine Department that the work be done. Mr Stewart moved-That the application be supported by the Board. Seconded by Mr Grant 1 and carried. , ; ; .