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Newspaper
Manilla Express
Location
Manilla, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Nov 22, 1923
Page
6
Fragmentary notes indicate a price matter discussed at 291 Peel Street Tamworth, WF, with intent to perform preparatory work similar to that done elsewhere. Details are limited and the record is fragmentary.
The writer recalls various miracle waters worldwide and finds Moree hot mineral baths compelling. A crutch user and two other locals reportedly recovered after weeks of treatment, aided by daily baths and copious water intake. The hot springs, at 120 degrees Fahrenheit, fuel local income of about £1000 annually for the Moree Municipal Council.
In Murwillumbah Court Mark Darey pleaded guilty to indecent behavior after Mavis Doris Phillips of Godfrey's Boneless Wonders testified that he insulted her and she struck him, knocking him to the floor. Darey recalled nothing until at the police station and was fined £5, effectively a month’s jail. The magistrate praised the girl’s action and urged more women to respond to insults. Also reported, four cedar logs totaling 3400 super feet were taken from McAulay’s property at Wilson’s Creek and hauled to Mullumbimby, valued at over £100.
Dr. Truby King praised a fall in infant mortality in New Zealand to just over 4 percent in the first year, crediting Plunket society education. He cited Dunedin where deaths from gastro enteritis fell to one in the 1918 22 23 period, from prior rates of 10 per 1000 births, with five year averages at 1 in 1600.
A Mudgee District Hospital committee faced long allegations that doctors charged private fees for attending patients in the hospital. The President ruled there was nothing in regulations to stop such arrangements, stating government approved the principle that those who could pay would be charged full hospital fees. A threatened excommunication was dropped.
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