DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 21 August 1940, Page 2

DOMINION ITEMS

[PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

DENTAL UNIT.

WELLINGTON, August 20. Members of the War Council today inspected a mobile dental unit for use with troops overseas. It was built in the Railway Workshops, is said to be the first equipment of its kind to be constructed. It is a sturdily-built structure, capable .of being transported on motor trucks, and has room to accommodate seven skilled operatives whose duty will be to look after the welfare of the men’s teeth.

OTAGO UNIVERSITY DUNEDIN, Aug. 21.

The annual statement of accounts of the Otago University reveals that Government grants increased between the years 1937-40 by £11,750, the major increases being arts and general by £4,750, medical by £4,250. The treasurer comments that these increases enabled an improvement to be made in the salaries of the teaching staff, and the provision of additional staffing. The standard salary of professors of the Arts and Science Faculty is now £ 1000. The salaries of full-time Professors of the Medical Faculty range from £l2OO to £2OOO.

PRAYER AND SCHOOLS 1 WELLINGTON, August 21

Mr. W. V. Dyer, who has been chairman of the Wellington Education Board for the past six years, was today, elected for a further term of two years. The Board decided to open its meetings with prayer. This was put into operation at once, the chairman leading the Board* and staff in the Lord’s Prayer. Col. McDonald, mover of the motion, gave notice of motion for next meeting that the schools open with the Lord’s Prayer, each morning, subject to the approval of the Committees concerned. ASSAULTING POLICE. WELLINGTON, August 20. Remarking that he was very lucky not to be sent to gaol for 14 days, Mr Stout, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court, Wellington, yesterday fined Richard Joseph Houlihan £5 for assaulting Senior-Sergeant T. Moriarty. He pleaded guilty. Houlihan attended the Rugby match at Athletic Park on Saturday afternoon, and, with a number of others, was sitting in the stand drinking liquor, said Sub-Inspector G. H. Lambert, who prosecuted. At the interval he jumped over a fence, and when an official refused to let him return to the stand the same way he became- abusive. He insisted, and when Senior-Sergeant Moriarty told him to desist and pushed his legs off the fence he struck the seniorsergeant a severe blow in the face. Addressing Houlihan, the Magistrate said there was too much drinking in the grandstand. Bottles were thrown about to the annoyance of people who went to see the matches.