CHRISTCHURCH NEWS

Greymouth Evening Star, 2 December 1925, Page 3

CHRISTCHURCH NEWS

W.E.A. DIRECTOR.

(Special to “Star.’”)

CHRISTCHURCH, December 1. Professor J‘. B. Condliffe’s lesigna tion. as Director of tlie TutonaJ classes was accepted with regret at s meeting of the Canterbury College Board of Governors yesterday. rhe Board expressed thanks to Professoi Condliffe for the very efficient services rendered by him to the W.E.A Professor J. Shelley was appointed to the vacancy. MR COATES.’S PROGRAMME. The Prime Minister will leave Wellington this evening for Christchurch where he will attend a gathering'in 'honour of the ex-member for Riccarton (Hon. George Witty). 'Subsequently, Mr Coates. will visit Lake Coleridge and inspect the progress ol the duplication scheme. He will return to Wellington on Friday. POLICE INSPECTION. Superintendent W. H. McKinnon, in charge of the Canterbury and West Coast Police districts, left this morning on a tour of inspection of the West Coast and Nelson stations, in is will be his (last tour of those districts. Senior-Sergeant Lewin accompanied the Superintendent. MORE RAIN. Hea->y rain fell again last evening. The land is now thoroughly soaked; BUTTER PRICES. Although butter has been reduced in price in Auckland, and is to fall to-morrow at Dunedin, t'he representatives of the dairy factories state that.no reduction at present is proposed in Christchurch. The Canterbury wholesale net price is 1/7 lb, below that ruling in Auckland and Dunedin. BABY’S DEATH. Small fibres from a shawl clogged the larynx of a Tinwald baby and resulted in its death. The child had sucked the shawl. The adjourned inquest concerning t'he death of Mary Ellen Lambert, daughter of Mrs W. Lambert, McMurdoe Street, was concluded before Mr James Cow, District Coroner, at the Courthouse this morning. The child’s age was two months 19 days. Senior-Sergeant J. Matfiieson represented the police. Elizabeth Lambert, mother of the child, said that on Friday night she gave t'he baby a bath, and bottle then nursed her a little while, before putting her to bed about 9 O’clock, She did not see the child again till between seven and eight o’clock the following morning. Witness then sent for a doctor. When Ke arrived, the child was dead. It was wrapped in a woollen shawl and had a blanket round its shoulders. She had never seen the baby sucking the shawl or the blanket. To Senior-Sergeant Mathieson, witness said that the child occupied a separate room and always slept well. The Coroner expressed the opinion that the mother should have visited the c'hild more often. In tihis, he was supported by the Senior-Sergeant who expressed the' opinion that the casei was most unusual. Dr W. J. Mullin remarked that it was the practice in these days t<j break children into going without food all night until about five or six o’clock in the morning. The doctor said that at the' lower part of the back of the throat, he found a small collection of what looked like woollen fibres. This, when laid out was about the size of a three-penny piece, .and was just over the aperture of the larynx. He considered the. child was also suffering from bronchitis. Possibly, the child was in the habit of sucking the end of its blanket or shawl. The immediate cause of deat'h was probably asphyxia, owing to the larynx having become blocked by the small woollen fibres found at the back of the throat., The Coroner returned a verdict in accordance with the medical evidence.