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Press, Volume LX, Issue 17982, 28 January 1924, Page 13

intendo'nt of the "Wellington Hospital (Dr. T>. M. "Wilson) it is desirable that the Hospital Board should make a rule that "no liquor shall be brought into Hospital premises by any member of the staff." Any offender should be liable to dismissal. "This is an un'Vrittcn rule," says Dr. "Wilson, "but I think it might bo made a 'written' one." "There aro bo many by-laws that one needs to be a bit of a Philadelphian lawyer to move a muscle with any reasonable degree of safety," wrote a defendant in a letter to Mr J. W. Poyntoa, S.M., when charged at tho Auckland Police Court with parking a motor-car within sis feet of a fire-plug. "Apart from that, I would like you to stroll around to the allegel locality, and see if you really think it fair to fine a man for leaving a car in front of something which it is very difficult to notice, even when you knew it is there. At least they ought to bo made conspicuous. There are several little iron squares.iu the path, some marked F.P., somo F.H., some T., and S.M., others with_ no namo at aIL How are you to distinguish which are waterplugs for fixe-extinguishing purposes? To-da7, after closely inspecting the j footpath, I shifted my car three times, and then -fras not rare whether I was right." The writer of tho letter and eight othfizs were each., fined 10s and