Waite’s Gallipoli book praised
The London Daily Mail of March 9 characterises Major F. Waite’s ‘The New Zealanders at Gallipoli’ as "an admirable piece of work, excellently illustrated". "Wherever they went," says the reviewer, "the New Zealand troops left a reputation second to none.
They were loved by their friends, feared by their enemies and honoured for their unflinching courage and discipline by the British people.
Not without reason do Sir Ian Hamilton and Earl Haig pay them in this work the warmest tributes.
Lord Haig, indeed, states that "no division in France built up for itself a finer reputation, whether for the gallantry of its conduct in battle, or the excellence of its behaviour out of the line."
"Sir Ian Hamilton reminds the world that the ‘superb land’ from which these incomparable soldiers came lost from a population of 1 million, 15,000 killed: "Whereas, to take other standards, the Belgians, justly famous as having fought so long and valiantly for the freedom of Europe, lost 13,000 killed out of a population of seven million."
"Of all the horrors the greatest was that of thirst, and was experienced to the full by the New Zealanders. This is a fine book, dealing with a worthy theme."
Plea for consumptive treatment
Christchurch: "If New Zealand legislators could be compelled to sit in the tuberculosis dispensary with me day by day for a few weeks, and listen, as I have to listen, to the despairing words of heartbroken fathers, mothers, husbands and wives, and watch their tears flow, as I have to watch them, something definite and active might be done to rid the community of the terrible scourge of consumption."
This passage occurred in the annual report of Dr G.J. Blackmore, medical director of the North Canterbury Hospital Board’s Tuberculosis Institution, received by the board at its meeting today. The director took the opportunity to make a forcible and stirring appeal for the more widespread and thorough treatment of consumption in New Zealand.
The Cashmere Sanatorium, stated Dr Blackmore, has now been open 12 years, and as regards the campaign against consumption in New Zealand generally, it is very discouraging to have to record that no real progress has been made in this time.
Such measures as have been taken are being carried out in a piecemeal and consequently inefficient fashion.
There is no defined national policy, no uniform and universal scheme for dealing with tuberculosis in New Zealand, and until this is adopted, no real progress can be made.
At the present time only two hospital boards in New Zealand are provided with sanatoria, the North Canterbury district and the other in the Otago district.
Boys fined for fighting
Two lads were charged in the Juvenile Court yesterday before Mr J.R. Bartholomew SM with "threatening behaviour in a public place within view of passers-by, whereby a breach of the peace was occasioned."
The boys, who live in Harbour Terrace, had apparently been on not the best of terms, and a challenge to one of them to get away from a fence or he would be kicked, led to a scuffle and a fistic encounter.
The boy who got the worst of the bout complained to Constable Aitcheson,
and the result was the appearance of the juvenile belligerents before the magistrate.
Constable Aitcheson, having detailed what happened after he appeared on the scene, the two principals were questioned by the magistrate.
Mr Bartholomew advised the parents to endeavour to put an end to the bad feeling between the boys, and fined each of the offenders 5 shillings without costs. — ODT, 20.4.1922
