FRUIT MACHINES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 247, 19 October 1939, Page 24

FRUIT MACHINES.

CLUBS' APPLICATION.

DOCTORS' HEALTH SCHEME.

SYDNEY'S LATEST DOINGS. (From Our Own Correspondent.) SYDNEY, October 12. Tlie State Cabinet is now considering a scheme submitted to it by registered lion-proprietary clubs to allow the return of poker and fruit machines. The clubs pro[>ose that the machines, of which 2000 were in use in Sydney alone, should be licensed for £50 a year and the proceeds ( £100,000) given to the hospitals. The machines would be owned by club members, who would receive 80 per cent of the takings and benefits, the balance of 20 per cent going to club funds. The clubs were so hard hit when the machines were recently banned that 250 employees have been dismissed and other dismissals will follow unless the machines are restored.

Community Medical Service. A community medical servic; for voluntary contributors was inaugurated in Canberra on Monday. Five resident doctors are conducting the scheme for residents earning tip to £520 a year and their de|K>ndents. Contribution's are on a. sliding scale, with a maximum of £.'{ 3/ a year for persons earning £520. or £(( (>/ for them and their dependents. Benefits include unlimited medical l»en«fits during illness, a medical overhaul every year, full attention in confinement cases, medical attendance at doctors' surgeries, or in the homes of contributors, between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. on weekdays and until 1 p.m. on Saturdays. The scheme is sponsored by the N.S.W. branch of the B.M.A. which has stated that if it is successful it may be extended throughout the State. Girls Tell of Masked Man. Police allege that *thev have found the man who some months ago so terrorised girls in the outer suburb of l-'airfield that their male relations escorted thein going to and coming from the railway station. A farm hand, Harold Hogan, has been committed for trial, charged with having assaulted and robbed one girl and with having indecently assaulted another girl under ]<». The jK>lice evidence was that the first girl had been compelled by a man, with black cloth over his face and carrying a knife, to go with him into the scrub, where Jie took her handbag"' containing £1 17/'. They alleged that Hogaii admitted the charge, and told them that lie wanted the money to . buy a dress suit for a dance and made the mask out of an old pair of pants. Hogan was also said to have admitted having taken the other girl into the bush and assaulted her.

Iron Luag Ineffective. Desperate effort*, to revive a man who was found floating in the harbour failed, and even after he had been in an iron lung at Sydney Hospital for !I0 minutes he showed no sign of life. He was a ship's cook named Hart. A few minutes after the doctors had given up ho|>e and taken him out of the lung, a spinster of 84, named Rogers, who had l>een found gassed in her room, was placed in the lung, again without success. Bank-note Confetti. Confetti made out of old bank notes ranging front £10 downwards was used at a Darling Point wedding this week when Mr. Colin Hall, a news-reel editor, was married to Miss Patricia Ziele, a newspaper woman. One of the bridesmaids said that she had been given a tinfui of the bank-note confetti two years ago by an archimandrite of the Greek Orthodox Church, but she did not know how it had come into his possession. Passers by, noticing the pieces of bank, notes on the iwvemert, souvenired many of them. The confetti was apparently made out of condemned notes, but it is stated that such notes are now destroyed by the banks. Missing in Germany. Australia House in London has been asked to try to locate Mr. Herman Nibbe, of the suburb of Fairfield, and his daughter. Miss Kathleen Nibbe, 29, who are believed to 'be somewhere in Germany and for whose safety Mrs. Nibbe is naturally very anxious. Mr. Nibbc had taken his daughter to Germany for medical treatment. They were last heard of on Anjrust 22, when they were staying with friends at Hamburg. Mr. Nibbe has been naturalised in Australia for more than 30 years. His daughter was an art teacher in Sydney until she had to give up because of her illness.