DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 28 February 1935, Page 2

DOMINION ITEMS

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CYCLISTS INJURED.

WELLINGTON, February 27.

Arising out of a collision at Petone last night, between a motor-cycle and a car, the rider of the cycle, A. C. Atkinson, was sent to the hospital with a smashed knee-cap, ‘and the pillion-rid-er, Miss Evelyn Broad, with a deep cut over the right knee. Thomas Frank Pryce was uninjured.

CROSSING SMASH. PALMERSTON N„ February 27

While the driver was endeavouring to start the engine of a bread delivery van which stalled on the Vance Street crossing at Shannon this morning, the mail train to Napier crashed into the vehicle, smashing the body to matchwood. The driver, Lawrence Palmer, a young man, sustained a wound in the back and an injury to a hand. He was taken to the hospital.

- DRUNKEN DRIVER FINED. WELLINGTON, February 27.

Foiujd guiltv of being intoxicated while in charge of a motor-car. Charles William Mack, a company director, was fined £l5 in Petone Court to-day. The case arose out of a mishap at Pay’s Bay on December 29, when defendant’s car capsized and rqn off the road on to the foreshore. Evidence was given that the car was erratically driven and was swerving and zig-zag-ging all over the place. DAMAGES AWARDED. WELLINGTON, February 27. Damages amounting to £212/16/6 were awarded to John Harris, a hawk-. e 1 ’ by Mr. Justice Reed, in the Supreme Court, to-day, for injuries received when he was knocked down by a motor-car, driven by Garth Harold Grocott, of Dunedin, company manager. The owner of the car, Henry Dryden Grocott, of Wellington, was cited as a second defendant. Harris, who alleged general negligence on the part of the driver, received a fracture of the left leg and knee. The accident happened in Wellington, last September. MENTAL PATIENT’S ESTATE AUCKLAND, February 28. In giving judgment, to-day, in favour of a firm of solicitors, who claimed £298, costs and disbursements from the Public Trustee (acting in the case of a mental hospital patient), Mr. Jus. tice Fair refused an application for a direction to the Public Trustee to pay the amount. He said that the estate of the mental patient must first provide for his maintenance, but in this case the estate was obtained largely as the result of the solicitors’ efforts. If the Minister of Mental Hospitals agreed, the Public Trustee might quite properly pay the solicitors a sum up to £2OO. FALSE ENTRIES. WELLINGTON, February 27. . Oliver Rae, wood and coal merchant, of Petone, was fined £2/10/- for making false entries in a wages book, and Walter Stanley Watt was fined £l/10/- for wilfully signing an incorrect record. The Story told was that Wyatt wanted to drive a lorry, but was told he could not as it would mean paying £4/1/6, instead of £3/10/-, which he was receiving. He said hc would drive the lorry without any increase, and so the book was falsified R was also stated that the man was now on relief. Rae denied that he had dismissed him, saying that the man left of his own accord, and then tried to recover the ajnqur.t that he thought was owing. FAILURE TO ACCOUNT. WELLINGTON, February 27. Thomas James Balfour Mason, 42, accountant, and bookmaker, was today committed for sentence for failing to account for £B6 odd to the Wellington Gas Company. The. evidenceshowed that he was a collecting agent, and, in a letter read in the Court, he said he had been running another business, in which he had to pay out a lot of small sums, and that he got the money mixed. . He suggested repaying at £5 a month, offered security. and said he would carry on the agency with no charge to the company. To a police question, the company s accountant said that Mason had told him he had been taking doubles, and had been struck twice. Bail was allowed in £lOO.

VICE-REGAL FAREWELL. ' TIMARU, February 27. The Governor-General and Lady Bledisloe were accorded a civic fare 1 well at the railway station this afternoon in the presence of a large gathering of the public. ' The Mayor of Timaru. Mr. T. W. Satterthwaite, on behalf of the citizens of South Canterbury, said the public would always hold Their Excellencies in grateful remembrance. Their helpful advice and high ideals had been a source of comfort and inspiration to the Dominion during the depression. On behalf of the people of the district, he presented the Governor-General with a nicelybound volume of the history of South Canterburv. The Governor-General said that he and Lady Eledislic deeply appreciated tho loyal sentiments to the Crown, and would take back with them happy remembrances of the cordial goodwill which had been extended to them. He could not help but think Timaru one ol the heautv spots of the Dominion, and as tho tourist traffic developed, it should become the Constantinople ol the Southern Seas.

B.M.A. CONFERENCE. DUNEDIN, February 26

The opening session of the biennial conference of the British Medical Association was held to-night, when the presidential address was delivered by Dr. Carmalt Jones, professor of Systemate Medicine at Otago University. Dr Jones took as his subject Medical Education.

On behalf of the Otago Division, Dr. Jones welcomed the visiting doctors. Dr. Bernard Myers, of London, conveyed greetings from the British Medical Association, and expressed the hope that the conference would be a great success and that the branch would continue to expand. Occasion was taken to make a presentation to Sir Lindo Ferguson, who has been associated with the Otago Medical School for fifty years. The presentation consisted of an ilknniuated address containing the signatures of about 300 medical practitioners from all parts of the Dominion and further afield. In addition, Dr. Hardie Neal, of Auckland, on behalf of the signatories, made a substantial donation to augment the Dean’s fund for medical research, and suggested that the fund should in future be known as the Sir Lindo Ferguson Fund. i

“Is this a normal report, or is this just ‘soft soap’ to bluff the board?” asked a member of the Auckland Hospital Board at its last meeting, when the report of the house committee was presented. The member referred to a letter written by the housekeeper of tho residence at the hospital appreciating the good conduct of the young doc-

tors during the past year. It was mentioned by the chairman, Mr. W. Wallace, that in past years the housekeeper had complained of the behaviour of the young doctors. “They will become known as the doctors of the good year,” remarked a member. “Perhaps the appreciative letter of their conduct could be attached to their testimonials.”