OUR DUNEDIN TELEGRAMS.
[by TKr.KGn.vpir—special to tui: st.ui.] DI'NEDIN, This Day. There is a prospect of Eorlmry Park being acquire as a puhlic reserve, (he owners of the property having heen invited by the city corporation to pat ;i priee on it. DCNEDIN, This Day. The amende honorable is made by the Kev. Scorgie. chairman of the Moiuington hoiisehodlers' meeting, for the'statement that the Rev. .Murray had urged his congregation to turn out, to the meeting and elect him to the school committee, ft appears the Wesleyan minister's pulpit reference was merely an intimation to his flock that it was their duty to attend and elect the best committee possible. Speaking at St. .John's Ambulance Association's annual meeting. Dr. Class said he would like to see the Government make it compulsory on railway men and policemen to haw a thorough knowledge of the rules of First, Aid work. Every boy and girl on leaving school ought also to know something about the rules.
Mr Keddoll. deputy Registrar of Old Age Pensions, is to be transferred to another district. Mr L. Grow, of the head office, is taking up the Dunedin work.
Mary Ellen Norman, at whose home the girl Matthewson died, was subjected to a very searching examination at the hands of Inspector O'Brien. For a considerable time she appears to have made a practice of taking in single women maternity cases, f| was with considerable reluctance and only after being urged so to do by the Coroner, to whom she appealed for protection, that she gave up her address, when a resident of Auckland, as Ponsonby Road. One of the most interested spectators at the inquest proceedings was Dr Ogston, the local inspector of nursing homes. It is understood that it is his intention to lay an information against Mrs Norman for keeping an unregistered nursing home. The Chatto section of the Ofago Central Railway is to bo opened before then end of tin; present month. The Minister of Public Works is to be invited to perform the opening ceremony.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 22 May 1906, Page 3
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